Collins v. Stalnaker

Riley, President:

A. B. Collins and Harlan Collins brought this suit in equity in the Circuit Court of Gilmer County against Clara Stalnaker and Hope Natural Gas Company, a corporation, for the purpose of partitioning the oil and gas within and underlying a tract of two hundred thirty-five acres of land in Gilmer County, formerly owned by Lue V. Collins, the mother of the three individual litigants. Clara Stalnaker prosecutes this appeal from a decree of the circuit court, based upon the finding of that court that the individual parties were the owners in place of the oil and gas within and…