Wallace v. Neal

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Tinsley

Affirming.

The appellants, plaintiffs below, claim that the appellants James A. Wallace, W. P. Williams, U. B. Williams, and Mrs. W. S. Raydure are the owners in fee of a tract of 40.48 acres of land on Cow creek in Estill county, Ky.; that the appellants Reno Oil Company, Thomas Adams and Gr. EL Brenner are the owners of the oil and gas therein, less a royalty of one-eighth thereof belonging to the owners of the fee; that the defendant below, Wood Oil Company, is claiming the oil and gas in a portion of said 40.48 acres under some sort of a lease…