Maynard v. Ratliff

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sims

Reversing.

This appeal is prosecuted by G. D. Maynard, who will be referred to as plaintiff, from a judgment denying him a gas royalty of $100 per year from 1935 on a tract of land of 18 acres in Martin County. Plaintiff filed an intervening petition in an action of William Y. Ratliff v. Roscoe Kirk et al., which concerned the settlement of the estate of J. D. Kirk, and although he prosecutes this appeal on a partial record it contains everything pertaining to this royalty, hence there is no presumption that that portion of the record not before us would…