Leonard Crude Oil Co. v. Walton

Plaintiff, Leonard Crude Oil Company, a Michigan corporation, commenced an interpleader action in the Isabella County Circuit Court. Plaintiff sought thereby to obtain a determination as to the ownership rights of competing interest holders to proceeds of an oil well, known as the Zatkoff and DeMuynck No. 1 Well, located on a drilling unit in Ira Township, St. Clair County, Michigan. Defendants Miller Zatkoff and Leocadia Zatkoff are owners, as husband and wife, of the south 1/2 (20 acres) of the drilling unit, the well being situated upon the Zatkoff parcel of property. Defendant Ernest A.…