Searcy v. Tomlinson Interests, Inc.

WILLIAM H. BIZZELL, Commissioner for the Court:1

This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Jefferson Davis County *374sustaining general and special demurrers and dismissing a bill of complaint which sought to remove clouds on title to a one-fourth mineral interest and reform a 1952 deed so as to make clear the reservation thereby of the mineral interest in question.

The bill alleges, and for the purpose of the demurrers we assume as true, the following facts: W. C. McLeod owned eighty acres of land, less one-half the minerals which had been reserved by an earlier owner. In 1952,…