Helmick . v. Broll

Calhoun, Judge:

This case, on appeal from a final judgment of the Circuit Court of Hardy County, involves conflicting claims of ownership of mineral rights in a tract of 110 acres of land lying near Needmore in Lost River District of that county. The appellants, Dari Teets, Irvin Teets and Ethel Teets, own the surface of the 110 acres and claim the mineral rights as successors in title of George W. Hawse. Raymond L. Orndorff and Nina Orndorff, appellees, claim ownership of the mineral rights in question as purchasers thereof at a judicial sale held in 1963 in an action instituted in the…