Burden v. Gypsy Oil Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Thiele, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in an action for partition of real and personal property. While other property was involved, we need notice only one tract, concerning which there is no dispute of fact, for the specific questions raised by the appeal pertain to the extent of interest obtained by a life tenant of real estate and the remaindermen, under an o.il and gas lease.

Walter Scott Burden, then a widower, owned a certain 12.58-acre tract of real estate, and on April 7, 1913, he conveyed it to his children, William W. Burden,…