Lincoln Land Co. v. Commonwealth Oil Co.

This is a suit in equity to cancel a recorded lease as a cloud on the title to lands owned by the Lincoln Land Company, plaintiff, in Scotts Bluff county. The lease was dated December 16, 1905. The Goshen Hole Irrigation Company was named therein as lessor and the Commonwealth Oil Company, defendant, as lessee. Lessor demised “all of the oil, gas, salt, coal, iron, gold, copper or other minerals in, under and upon” the premises, so long as those or other minerals are found in paying quantities, in the opinion of the lessee, “or the rent for failure to drill a well or operate said minerals is…