Smith County Oil Co. v. Jefcoat

The appellees E. P. Jefcoat and wife ask in this suit to be adjudicated the owners in fee simple of the land described as the SE)4 of SW:14, Section 20, Township 9 N, Range 13 W, in Jones County, and that the conveyances which appear of record in favor of the several defendants, Smith County Oil Company and successive ven-dees of all the oil, gas and other minerals, be cancelled as clouds upon the alleged fee simple title of the complainants. They were granted this relief by the final decree of the Chancery Court, together with the sum of $1,200 as damages prayed for against the appellant…