Frierson v. Sheppard

L. A. Smith, Sr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Robert Frierson was the owner of a farm containing 429 acres in Yazoo County, Miss., as to 160 acres of which he had executed an oil lease to Southern Natural Gas Contpany. Aggie J. Frierson is the wife of Robert. Appellees, the Sheppards, are husband an wife. On their own initiative, with experienced advice and aid, they prepared and negotiated with appellants the conveyance to them by appellants of a “Mineral Right and Royalty Transfer,” embracing all of the land on part of which was then, as stated, the oil lease, ante. There was also…