Mack Oil Co. v. Garvin

OPINION

WATT, V.C.J,

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

€ 1 Plaintiff, Mack Oil Company, filed this action for interpleader in the District Court of Garvin County on November 2, 1998. Mack Oil was a stakeholder as the result of having drilled two gas wells in the northwest *777quarter of Section 16, Township 38 North, Range 5 West of the Indian Meridian in Grady County. At issue here is the ownership of a one-eighth interest in the minerals underlying an eighty acre tract, which is contained in the quarter section upon which Mack Oil drilled its wells.1 Mack Oil has regularly paid the royalties relating…