Hood v. Adams

OPINION

LEWIS, Judge.

This suit originated as an action by the original lessors (Donnie Hyder and wife Rebecca Hyder) and the original lessee appellant Layton P. Hood against the assignees of the lease, some of whom are appellants herein. While suit was pending, foreclosure proceedings were instituted against the Hy-ders, and appellees purchased the property in question at the foreclosure sale. Subsequently, appellees filed their petition to intervene in the instant suit, seeking to terminate the “oil and gas lease” on their property. After an evidentiary hearing the Chancellor entered a decree…