Dame v. Mileski

OPINION.

This is a suit to quiet title and to adjudicate the rights of the parties in a 1 percent overriding royalty interest in the oil and gas in certain Big Horn County lands. According to the uncontradicted evidence, D. L. McDonald and Stanley T. Wallbank were owners of a United States oil and gas lease on the lands. They assigned it to others, reserving a 1 percent overriding royalty in each McDonald and Wallbank; McDonald thereafter conveyed his 1 percent overriding royalty interest in the same lands three different times as follows:(1) To R. D. Dame on February 11, 1952, which…