Stephens v. Keener

Appellant brings this appeal from a decree of the Columbia chancery court, second division, setting aside and canceling a certain mineral deed executed by James Keener, Sr., to appellant for a one-half interest in the minerals in a certain eighty-acre tract of land.

Appellee (plaintiff below) alleged that the mineral deed in question, which he executed in favor of appellant, was without consideration and that he did not know that he was executing a mineral deed to said land at the time he signed the deed; that he did not intend to execute a mineral deed, but intended to execute an oil and gas…