Nolan v. Young

HUPl?, O. J.

Nolan and wife sued John Young, Will Crow, Geo. B. Owens, and Newton P. Willis, who, it is alleged, composed a copartnership, under the name of the Canadian Star Oil & Gas Company, which is also made a party defendant. The suit is to cancel an oil lease on the alleged ground of fraud, inducing the plaintiffs to make a lease contract by false representations, which are alleged substantially as follows: That defendant Young, in order to induce plaintiff to execute the lease, represented that he had already secured almost enough land for the purpose of sinking a test well or wells,…