Missouri, K. & TR Co. v. Miley

DAVISON, Justice.

This suit, which is of equitable cognizance, was brought by Cora M. Miley, Wm. H. Miley, Cora A. Harney, nee Miley, W. F. Laughlin, Lylus A. Laughlin and B. G. Byars, as plaintiffs, against the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company, a corporation, and Skelly Oil Company, a corporation, as defendants, to quiet title to the oil, gas and other minerals underlying a 7.857 acre strip of land, constituting the right-of-way of the defendant railroad company. The title of all parties springs from that of Edward King and Margaret A. King, both deceased, whose heirs were, upon motion…