Holmes v. Compton

STAKELY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final decree in the equity court by the respondents Hester Clarkson Holmes, Margaret Clarkson. The third respondent in the court below, Edith Clarkson McDonald, is not an appellant. The bill of complaint as originally filed was to sell for division the oil and minerals- on a 12 acre tract of land more particularly described in the bill of complaint. The bill of complaint was subsequently amended by seeking to quiet title to the 12 acres of land or in the alternative to sell for division the mineral and oil interests.

The case was submitted upon an…