Reserve Oil & Gas Co. v. Metzenbaum

This is an action to quiet title of plaintiffs and respondents in and to 410 acres of oil and gas leasehold interests covering 460 acres in the aggregate.

The complaint was filed on June 8, 1946. Defendants and appellants appeared by answer, denied plaintiffs’ ownership and right of possession and set up, as substantiating their claim, that they had a one-half interest, by reason of a partnership existing between defendant and appellant Walter Metzenbaum and defendant M. Metzenbaum, in an agreement and assignment of interest by plaintiffs of a portion of the original lease, dated February 14,…