Hemler v. Adcock

On October 15, 1923, by notarial act, the defendant sold to the plaintiff an undivided one-eighth interest in an oil and gas lease on certain described lands situated in the county of Ouachita, state of Arkansas. The consideration expressed in the act of sale was $100 cash.

At the time of the sale the oil lease was in litigation before the courts of Arkansas, between the defendant and the Gulf Refining Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Louisiana and having its domicile in Caddo parish. The case was decided in the lower court in favor of the defendant in the present suit, Mrs.…