Pure Oil Co. v. Clark

* Writ of error granted. We are called upon chiefly to consider and determine the legal effect of the proceedings in the probate court in relation to the guardian's lease of the real estate of the minor, Cone Johnson Clark. If the lease was at all events unauthorized and void through lack of legality of the proceedings in the probate court, then the judgment should be affirmed; otherwise appellant's legal title seems to be sufficiently sustained and must prevail. In order to render the mineral lease upon real estate of a minor effectual to confer a valid legal right, the probate court must…