State v. Huber Corporation

BAUGH, Justice.

The State sued Continental Oil Company and J. M. Huber Corporation to recover, as delinquent, $58,240 rentals al leged to be due on a ten-year river bed oil and gas lease issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Marland Oil Company, dated February 7, 1927, on 2,080 acres of the Canadian River bed in Hutchinson County. This lease was assigned by the Marland on October 17, 1929, to the Continental Oil Company; subsequently on August 9, 1935, and January 31, 1936, assigned by the Continental to J. M. Huber Corporation; and renewed, on February 7, 1937, by the…