Mills v. Taylor

CLAY, Commissioner.

This is the fourth time we have had before us some phase of a controversy involving interests in a tract of land which has been exploited under a lease for the production of gas and oil. Some of the difficulty may be laid to the misconstruction of a deed by this court when the controversy was first presented here. The history of the litigation may be found in the following cases: Mills v. Mills, 261 Ky. 190, 87 S.W.2d 389; Mills v. Mills, 275 Ky. 431, 121 S.W.2d 962; Mills v. Taylor, Ky.1952, 249 S.W.2d 779.

In the last opinion above cited we decided that appellant had a…