Byers v. Fuller

FORD, District Judge.

The plaintiff D. C. Byers seeks to recover from the defendant George C. Fuller possession of certain lands located in Wayne and McCreary counties, Kentucky, to which he claims to be entitled as the owner of certain oil and gas leases which he asserts are wrongfully possessed and withheld from him by the defendant.

The defendant asserts his right to the possession of the leasehold estates, claimed by the plaintiff, under the terms and provisions of a written contract with plaintiff of October 25, 1939, as supplemented and modified by a subsequent writing of August 19, 1940.…