Monsanto Co. v. Cochran

This suit was brought to cancel a lease on a filling station upon the ground of fraud, and for an accounting for rent due, and for punitive damages. It was filed in the Chancery Court of Wayne County, Mississippi, by the appellees against James H. Brownlee, J. P. Thorn ton, Monsanto Company, and the Lion Oil Company. Monsanto Company and Lion Oil Company are actually one company, and is hereinafter called Lion Oil Company.

A careful examination of this record reveals that this case grows out of an unfortunate misunderstanding. James E. and James S. Cochran, father and son, built a filling…