Spaulding v. Porter

Spaulding and O’Leary were defendants in the district court of Morgan county, the action being brought by Mary A. Porter on two causes of action, namely, one for rescission and cancellation of an oil and gas lease (on the ground of fraudulent representations alleg'ed to have been made to her parents, Joseph and Phoebe A. Richie, her predecessors in title, who granted the lease to the defendants), and the other to quiet the title alleged to have been clouded by the same lease, which Mrs. Porter says is invalid and void. A demurrer to the first cause of action was sustained, and judgment…