Sealy v. Pound

Opinion by

THREADGILL, C.

The question involved in this appeal is the validity of an oil and gas lease that includes the separate unrestricted allotted lands of two Chickasaw minors and the joint inherited lands of three unrestricted Chickasaw minors. The mother, Mattie Pound, was the guardian of her three minor children, Walker T., Willie V., and Carrie L. Pound. On March 27, 1922, said guardian made and executed an 'oil and gas lease, under the orders of the county court of Grady county, to the Magnolia Petroleum Association, a joint stock company of Galveston, Tex., on the land of Walker T.…