Security Bank v. Pollard

This suit was instituted in the circuit court of White County by Security Bank of Mount Carmel and three individuals as plaintiffs against William S. Pollard and Hettie Pollard, defendants, for the cancellation of a mineral deed to an undivided one-eighth interest in 146 acres in White County. The defendants appeal to this court from a decree of the circuit court cancelling and setting aside such mineral deed.

Briefly, the facts are as follows: Miles E. Dee, one of the plaintiffs, was the owner of an undivided one-eighth interest in the oil, gas and other minerals under, or that might be…