Guice v. Burrage

LEE, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, plaintiffs below, brought separate suits to cancel certain deeds purportedly conveying mineral interests in their property to one W. G. Burrage. W. G. Burrage acquired an oil, gas and mineral lease from each of appellants: from Elizabeth Guice, plaintiff in the first action, and' her husband, S. L. Guice,1 on December 7, 1938; ' from Finus Herring and Cordelia Herring, plaintiffs in the sec*305ond action, on December 2, 1938; from Monroe Davis and Hattie Davis, plaintiffs in the third action, on December 2, 1938; and from Foster James, plaintiff in the fourth…