Ball v. Autry

JACKSON, Vice Chief Justice

In the trial court plaintiffs, Virgil R. Ball and others claiming through him, filed this action to quiet title to the minerals in and under 96.59 acres of land in Love County, Oklahoma. Plaintiffs based their claim on a recorded certificate tax deed issued to Virgil R. Ball on March 20, 1934, and adverse possession for more than five years thereafter, under the provisions of 12 O.S.1961, Sec. 93(3) and (6). The defendants, Autry and others who are involved in this appeal, filed answers and cross petitions in which they claimed a seven-eighths undivided interest in…