Clark v. Pauley

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Pulton

— Reversing.

The Warfield Natural Gas Company, holding an oil and gas lease on approximately fifteen acres from both appellants and appellees, filed this declaratory judgment action to have determined to whom the rents and royalties should be paid. By appropriate pleadings ownership of the oil and gas rights was put in issue between appellants and appellees and it was adjudged that such ownership was in appellee, Amy Pauley. The appeal seeks a reversal of that judgment.

In the year 1921 the appellee, Amy Pauley (then Stepp), executed a deed by which she…