Bounds v. Ohio Oil Co.

The Ohio Oil Company, a corporation, claiming to be the owner of an oil, gas and mineral lease on certain lands, as described, filed its bill of interpleader for the purpose of determining the proper parties in interest to whom it should pay royalties on account of a producing gas well on said lands. Mrs. Roberta Roberts and others were made defendants. H. C. Bounds and wife, Mrs. Wauline R. Bounds, intervened and filed an answer, denying that the complainant and the named defendants owned any interest whatever in said lands. They made their answer a cross bill and claimed that they owned all…