McDonald v. Antelope Land & Cattle Co.

SAND, Justice.

Gertrude Griffith McDonald, the personal representative of the estate of J. B. Barlow, appealed from the judgment of the Stark County district court which declared null and void the mineral reservations in the deed issued by the Antelope Land and Cattle Co. and quieted title to the real estate in question, including oil, gas, coal, clay, uranium, and all other minerals, in the various intervenors.

The property involved in this lawsuit was originally conveyed to the Northern Pacific Railroad in a land grant authorized in 1864 by the Thirty-eighth Congress of the United States in…