Stimson v. Tarrant

PRAY, District Judge.

This is a suit to cancel an oil and gas lease. Plaintiffs call it: “an action to clear title from a cloud created by a recorded instrument valid on its face but void as to the plaintiffs’ title.”

The theory of the case according to plaintiffs is that the oil and gas lease in question terminated when the production of oil and gas from the premises therein described was suspended in January, 1938, pursuant to the terms of the lease, as follows : “It is agreed that this lease shall remain in force for a term of five years from this date and as long thereafter as oil or gas,…