Hunter v. Booker

This is a suit for the rescission of an oil and gas lease, for attorney’s fees, and for the reservation of plaintiff’s right to sue for damages.

From a judgment canceling the lease, awarding plaintiff $250 and legal interest thereon, as attorney’s fees, ánd fixing a time limit for the removal of defendants’ property from the leased premises, the Texla-Coastal Oil Company, Inc., has appealed.

Plaintiff leased to defendant Booker certain land in Calcasieu parish, La., for the sole purpose of drilling thereon for oil and gas.

Booker assigned the east half of the acreage leased by him to E. E.…