McIntosh v. Leisk

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellants are the widow and some of the children of Colbert McIntosh, deceased, a negro, who in his lifetime acquired, and who died intestate as to, 264 acres of land in Marion county, Texas. When the matters in suit transpired, it had acquired a speculative value as oil land. They brought this suit on September 21, 1936, to cancel, and remove as a cloud on their title, a purported mineral deed dated July 17, and recorded October 7, 1935, which, for a recited consideration of $1,634, purported to convey to appellee a full one-fourth undivided mineral interest in the…