Harris v. Wheeler

R. T. Harris and several associates were joint owners of a five-acre producing oil lease in Wichita county, which they were operating under the name of Gray Gander Oil Company. Through one L. Wheeler as agent, sale of the lease was made to Ralph R. Langley of Kansas City, hlo. The consideration from Langley to Harris and associates was in these words:

“Whereas, said present owners’have sold said property to Ralph R. Langley of Kansas City, Missouri, for the sum of four hundred twenty-five thousand ($425,000.00) dollars paid and to be paid as follows: One hundred thousand ($100,000.00) dollars…