McIntosh v. Vail

Riley, PResident:

By this bill in the nature of an interpleader, brought by F. F. McIntosh and E. W. Grimm, partners doing business as McIntosh and Grimm, in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, plaintiffs sought the determination to which of two groups of claimants certain gas royalties belong. The salient issue is whether language used in the deed of conveyance by Mary E. Clerc created a covenant real or one merely personal. The effect of the decree of the circuit court being to adjudicate it a covenant real, appellants (the administrator and heirs of J. M. Stone, deceased) seek a reversal…