Consolidated-Progressive Oil Corp. v. Standard Oil Co.

On October 4, 1916, G. T. Shaw executed and delivered to A. E. Wilder an oil, gas, and mineral lease on a large tract of land in Claiborne parish, including the N. E. % of the S. W. % of section 20, township 21 north, range 7 west, the property in dispute in the present case.

The subsequent assignments of this lease, as alleged in plaintiffs’ petition, are as follows : Wilder to Atlas Oil Company, November 17, 1916; Atlas Oil Company to Denman and Williams, August 15, 1917; Denman and Williams to the Consolidated-Progressive Oil Corporation, November 10,1917; the Consolidated-Progressive Oil…