Roberts v. Tice

McíIaney, J.

Appellants, M. E. Roberts and his brothers, who are referred to in the briefs as Roberts Bros., were the owners of an oil and gas mining lease oh certain tracts of land in Miller county, holding same under the usual Arkansas form of lease in which one-eighth royalty was reserved in the fee owner or lessor, and on March 10, 1938, assigned same to Texarkana Drilling Company, reserving to themselves a one-eighth overriding royalty interest in the seven-eighths leasehold estate then owned by them. This assignment was filed for record in Miller county on March 28, 1938, and it…