Meacham v. Halley

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit, from the judgment in which this appeal comes, had to do with an oil and gas lease on ten acres of the Halley Ranch, in Winkler County, 'Texas. It was in equity against Halley and others, to cancel, for fraudulent representations, a release of it plaintiff had given Halley, and in the alternative, if that relief could not be had, for damages against him.

The claim was that by fraudulently representing to plaintiff that her lease had expired with the expiration of the ten year 'primary term, Halley had induced her to release her claim to it; that the other…