John D. Fields v. Stanolind Oil and Gas Company and Ada Oil Company

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought by Stanolind Oil & Gas Company, as lessee, and Ada Oil Company, to whom it had assigned the E % of Section 51 under a farm out agreement, the suit was in equity to quiet, and remove cloud from, title to plaintiffs’ oil and gas leasehold estate in and to twenty-three sections of land located in Sutton County, Texas, and for injunction.

The claim was: that plaintiffs were the owners of an oil and gas lease on twenty-three sections of land in Sutton County, Texas, dated August 3, 1944, from John D. Fields, Substitute Trustee, to Stanolind Oil & Gas Company, clause…