SEECO, Inc. v. Holden

hln this oil-and-gas case, appellant Joyce Walls and her lessee, SEECO, Inc., appeal from an order vesting ownership of certain minerals in appellee Carver L. Holden. We reverse and remand for further proceedings. 1

|gI. Background'

The minerals in question are subsurface to approximately 95 acres in Section 18, Township 9 North, Range 7, West in. White County. In 1912, appellant Joyce Walls’s grandfather, W.M. Howell, acquired the acreage and its minerals. Howell later sold the property to Clotene and Raymond Cox in 1948, but he retained an undivided one-half mineral interest in himself.

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