Newman v. Kerlyn Oil Co.

BROWN, Justice.

On March 12, 1918, one E. R. Holt owned the fee simple title in and to the lands in controversy, and on such date Holt executed and delivered to John L. Hanna an oil and gas lease on such lands, the instrument retaining unto the grantor the usual and customary ⅛ of the minerals.

On March 1, 1919, Holt executed and delivered to E. R. Prideaux and J. H. Newman a certain instrument in which he conveyed to said grantees “an undivided one-sixteenth (¾6) interest in and to all the natural gas, oil, petroleum, coal and other minerals, and mineral substances, together with a like…