Habermel v. Mong

MACK, Circuit Judge.

Appeal from a decree canceling a lease to appellant executed by appellees Stump and dismissing appellant’s cross-hill brought against all appellees.

The lease to Habermel was executed under the following circumstances: H. R. Stump owned 85 acres in the oil-producing section of Tennessee. Early in 1925 he was persuaded to give the oil lease to Habermel on the representation made by one Cook, in our judgment known to Habermel, that Habermel would at once begin to drill a well, indeed, that tools were being held in readiness pending the signing of the lease, and that if the…