State ex rel. Com'rs of Land Office v. Reynolds

Essential facts are stated as follows: During 1927 and subsequent years the land involved was owned in fee by defendants Reynolds and wife. On July 27, 1927, they conveyed to the defendant Neff by mineral grant an undivided half interest in the oil, gas and mineral rights therein. That conveyance was duly recorded in the county clerk’s office on July 29, 1927.

Thereafter Neff conveyed a portion of this interest to defendant Sykes and a portion to defendant Beard and the interests which are involved in this controversy were owned of record by defendants Sykes and Beard at the time of the…