Warford v. McQueen

Appellants filed their complaint in this cause in the circuit court of Marion county for partition of 216 acres of land. They also sought to enjoin and to remove as a cloud on the public record an oil and gas lease of the same premises executed by John W. McQueen to Harry F. Corbin and assigned by him to the Texas Company. The trial court granted the partition, but held the oil and gas lease valid and subsisting against appellants. It is from this latter portion of the decree that appeal is taken.

The issues grow out of a foreclosure, some years previous, involving the same premises. In 1919,…