Lucky Thirteen Oil Syndicate v. Barrett

The judgment below canceled an oil and gas mining lease drawn and executed and delivered by W. S. Barrett to the Commerce Development Company on September 12, 1929, covering lots 1 and 2, in block 13, Earlsboro, Pottawatomie county, Okla., and assigned, on December 4, 1929, to Harry Byrens, trustee for the Lucky Thirteen Oil Syndicate. The judgment below was based upon a construction of the terms of the lease. It was there held: “That said lease terminated and came to an end according to its terms on the 12th day of March, 1930.”

The material portions of the lease contract are: :

“Lessee agrees…