Ohio Oil Co. v. Giles

The Ohio Oil Company and Melben Oil Company, relators, seek by this original mandamus proceeding to compel Bascom Giles, Jesse James, and R. S. Calvert, respondents, to refund to relators the sum of $123,360.00, paid by relators to Bascom Giles, and that he be ordered to recognize certain mineral leases as valid and subsisting, without the payment or necessity to pay any rentals for the period during which such leases may be held between the commencement of the litigation and ten months and sixteen days, or, in the alternative, five months and twenty-one days after the rendition of a final…