Warfield Natural Gas Co. v. Marcum

Opinion op the Court by

ChieF Justice Rees

Reversing.

Birch Marcum and his wife, Nancy Marcum, were the joint owners of 80 acres of land in Martin county. Nancy Marcum died intestate in 1926, leaving her husband and ten children. On June 8, 1935, Birch Marcum and eight of the children, together with the spouses of those who were married, executed an oil and gas lease on the 80-acre tract of land to the Warfield Natural Gas Company. On September 13, 1935, Rebecca Marcum Triplett, one of the children who had not signed the lease, and her husband, Andy Triplett, conveyed to the War-field Natural…