Todd v. Devaney

MERRILL, Justice.

Appellees filed a bill seeking a declaratory judgment as to their rights in fifty acres of land in Franklin County. The bill showed that Devaney and Wilson owned the tract in 1933 when they conveyed the surface rights to R. P. Millican, reserving the mining rights. In 1943, Millican conveyed his rights to appellant. In November, 1954, the executors and heirs of Devaney and Wilson, who are parties complainant, leased the mining rights in forty acres of this tract to Tennessee Valley Sand and Gravel Company, also a complainant. The two deeds and the lease are made exhibits to…