Carter v. Foote

WILLIAMS, Chief Justice.

On January 24, 1958, Roy Douglas Foote, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, filed in the trial court an action to quiet title to an undivided ¼⅛ interest in and to the oil, gas and other minerals in and under certain described land. He alleged that he acquired title by testamentary disposition from his first wife, Beatryce Brown Foote, who died in 1948; that she had acquired title by intestate succession from her father, John Benjamin Brown, who died in 1942.

The defendants therein included brothers and sisters of Brown’s widow. They are hereinafter referred to as…