Pickens v. Harris

The plaintiff owned some 680 acres of land in the parish of Union.

On November 2, 1919, he executed an oil and gas lease to defendant on said land in the usual and customary form and containing the usual and customary stipulations and covenants.

The consideration recited in the lease was $3,400 cash in hand paid.

On April 3, 1920, Harris assigned the lease to one J. L. Pratt for a stated consideration of $6,800 cash in hand paid.

In this assignment Pratt assumed and agreed to execute and carry out all of the covenants and obligations imposed on Harris in the lease granted him by Pickens.

This suit…