Gray v. Schoonmaker

BRIGGLE, District Judge.

From a decree of the District Court, directing surrender and cancellation of a certain oil and gas lease upon 120 acres of land in Wabash County, Illinois, and dismissing for want of equity a counterclaim of defendants, seeking specific performance of an oral agreement on the part of plaintiffs to execute a certain oil and gas lease on a separate 288 acre tract of land, defendants appeal.

Plaintiff William W. Gray, as trustee of the estate of Allen Gray, deceased (hereinafter referred to as plaintiff or Gray), and others to whom he had later conveyed some of the real…