Coates v. Hewgley

REYNOLDS, Judge:

The defendant in the trial court, James Marion Hewgley, appeals a judgment quieting and confirming fee simple title in the plaintiff, Olice Herring Coates, to 160 acres and Lot 2 of Section 3, Township 13 North, Range 22 West of the I.M. The defendant contends the judgment is erroneous because a 1940 county deed of property acquired at tax resale, which was issued without serving notice on the defendant, did not divest him of a previously severed one-half mineral interest in the land.

The property was acquired by Roger Mills County at a tax resale on May 2, 1939. In April of…