Oberlin v. Wolverine Gas & Oil Co.

Third-party defendants, except for Grace Petroleum and the Patricks, appeal from a declaratory judgment in favor of plaintiffs and defendant on plaintiffs’ action to determine ownership of certain mineral interests that were in dispute and to affirm a lease between plaintiffs and defendant concerning those mineral interests. We affirm.

The matter was submitted to the trial court on stipulated facts. Briefly, plaintiffs claim ownership of an undivided 3/i6o interest in the minerals in the subject land. Plaintiffs obtained their interest through a mineral deed dated August 11, 1966, which was…