Nichols v. Goughnour

*742SANDSTROM, Justice.

[¶ 1] The successors to the interests of eight siblings of John Q. Nichols (“Goughnour defendants”) appeal from a summary judgment in a quiet title action by the successors to the interests of John Q. Nichols (“Nichols plaintiffs”) to determine ownership of 1/2 of the mineral interests in a parcel of land in Mountrail County. The Goughnour defendants claim they collectively own 1/4 of the mineral interests in the land and the Nichols plaintiffs own 1/4 of the mineral interests. The district court decided the Goughnour defendants collectively own 1/9 of the mineral interests…