Schaneman v. Wright

I. INTRODUCTION

Defendants-appellants and cross-appellees, Flavel A. Wright and his spouse, Dorothy Wright Hughes and her spouse, Betty Wright Evers and her spouse, Fred Wright and his spouse, and Barbara Overholt and her spouse, assert the district court erred in quieting title to certain mineral rights in plaintiffs-appellees and cross-appellants, Clyde E. Schaneman and his spouse, Barbara K. Schaneman, by virtue of improvidently finding that (1) there existed no trust of those rights for the benefit of the defendants and (2) transference of the surface estate conveyed the mineral rights as…