Crocker v. Humble Oil & Refining Company

HODGES, Justice.

This is an appeal and cross appeal from the district court of Carter County, Oklahoma, involving a judgment cancelling an oil and gas lease in part and issuing an alternative decree of cancellation in part.

On July 15, 1919, the oil and gas lease in question was executed covering ninety acres. The lease was subsequently divided into two parts — one part, containing forty acres, hereinafter referred to as the Humble-Bennett tract, was assigned to the defendant, Humble Oil & Refining Co., and the remaining fifty acres, hereinafter referred to as Carter-Bennett tract, was assigned…