Gulf Refining Co. v. Terry

This is an appeal from a decree of the court below, granted for the purpose of settling the controlling principles of the case.

The appellants are the successors in title to an oil and gas .lease executed in February, 1929, by the board of supervisors of Hinds county, authorizing the lessee to drill wells for oil and gas on a sixteenth section land, and to remove and appropriate any oil and gas found therein.

The iand is one of the sixteenth sections donated to the state by the national government for the benefit of its public schools. It is in the possession of the appellee, Terry, who claims…