Atlantic Refining Co. v. Moxley Moxley v. Atlantic Refining Co

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

The suit was for the recovery of $270,-854.54, 1 wi th legal interest from March 1,1941, arising out of the claimed breach by the defendant of a sublease of an oil, gas, and mineral lease on forty acres of land in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.

The claim was that defendant, in violation of the reassignment provisions 2 of the sublease, abandoned it while the sarqe was producing oil or gas without first giving plaintiffs the required thirty days prior notice of said proposed abandonment, causing plaintiffs to lose the lease and thereby suffer the damages sued for.

The…