Fey v. A A Oil Corp.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

On September 7, 1948, the plaintiffs by their attorney Louis P. Donovan, Esq., filed in the district court of Toole county, Montana, the complaint herein, seeking to quiet title to approximately 9,265 acres of described lands in Toole county on which oil had been discovered.

The defendants, appearing by their attorney E. J. McCabe, Sr., interposed separate demurrers to the complaint and, upon the overruling thereof, filed answers admitting certain allegations of the complaint, denying those not admitted and affirmatively asserting rights and interests in the lands by…