Long-Bell Petroleum Co. v. Hayes

The appellees, J. P. Hayes and others, filed their bill of complaint in the Chancery Court of Clarke County to cancel certain conveyances and mineral leases as clouds upon their title and to confirm their title to the oil, gas and minerals underneath the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 2, North, Range 16 East. The ownership of the surface of the said lands is not here involved. Prom a decree in favor of the complainants granting the relief sought this appeal is taken.

On January 1, 1912 the land and the…