Sample v. Reed

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

These cases involved the title to tracts of land and the consequent rights to oil royalties, bonuses and moneys received for oil from those lands. Robert Bryden and his wife, Lydia, came to Greenwood county in 1882, and they took into their home three young girls, the daughters of Charles C. Muninger, a brother of Mrs. Bryden, soon after the death of the mother of the children. It was the intention of the Brydens to rear, educate and provide for the three sisters, Lydia, Harriett and Gabriella, as if they were their own, and this…