Court Opinion

ID: 9626426
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 08:11:23.361285+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:01:12.068193
License: Public Domain

Schwellenbach, J.
(dissenting)—Although the deed from the Allens to the lone Lumber & Pole Co. contained a reservation of the mineral rights, the deed from the lone Company to the McCoys contained no such reservation. The McCoys paid taxes in good faith for more than seven successive years on the entire tract, which included the land itself and all substances in and under the same.
The logging operations were of such minor proportions that they did not rise to the dignity of changing the status of the land from that of unoccupied land.
The judgment should be affirmed.
May 7,1953. Petition for rehearing denied.