Harley v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.

Appellant filed a complaint in the circuit court of Marion county against the Magnolia Petroleum Company, a corporation, (hereinafter referred to as the Magnolia Co.) and others, appellees here, seeking an accounting for roy-' alties due under an oil and gas lease executed by the Magnolia Company’s assignor. The defendants, the Shell Oil Company, Inc., and certain other grantees and their successors in deeds executed by the appellant, filed counterclaims by which they sought reformation of their deeds. On hearing, the chancellor dismissed the complaint of appellant and granted the relief…