Adcox v. James

Appellee instituted this action in the chancery court of Union County against appellants (husband and wife), seeking- the reformation of a deed executed by the latter to the former, conveying part of a royalty reserved in an oil and gas lease covering a certain tract of land in that county, containing forty acres, to which appellant J. B. Adcox had title in fee simple. Said appellant had previously executed an oil and gas lease to one Jones, reserving a royalty of one-eighth of the production of oil and gas. Subsequent to that conveyance, appellants joined in a conveyance to appel-lee,…