J. M. Huber Petroleum Co. v. Yake

STOKES, Justice.

During the year 1928 appellee, Henry Yake, leased from his brother, William Yake, three sections of land to be used by appellee as grazing land. The lease was oral and was renewed from year to year, appellee retaining possession and use of the pasture lands and grazing cattle thereon continuously up to and including the year 1937. On the -23d of February of that year appellant obtained from William Yake and others, who seem to have had an interest in some of the land, a right-of-way deed, under which it procured the right to install and maintain a pipe line for the…