Legal Opinion

Dale v. Hickman

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided November 28, 1949No. 37234Published

1Opinion of the Court

McGehee, O. J.

This is a suit to recover from the appellee as administrator of the Estate of W. D. Smith, deceased, the purchase price paid by the appellant to the decedent on August 17, 1944, for a one-sixteenth royalty interest (being one-half of the one-eighth royalty theretofore retained by the said W. D. Smith in an oil and gas lease then outstanding in favor of the Humble Oil Company) on and under the following described land situated in Lincoln County, Mississippi, to-wit: Northwest quarter of southwest quarter, and the east half of southwest quarter, less ten acres on the south side…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Clifton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1846
  2. Pevey v. JonesMississippi Supreme Court · 1893
  3. Allen v. MillerMississippi Supreme Court · 1910

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