Hanover Co., Inc. v. Hines

On March 21, 1919, T. F. Mitchell and wife, Mrs. Su'e Mitchell, executed and delivered to one Dan Cameron an oil and gas lease in the usual form, covering a tract of land consisting of 278 acres. Later, to wit, in 1924, Mrs. Sue Mitchell Hines, her husband having died and she having remarried, and others, instituted suit against the Hanover Company, Incorporated, who in the meantime had succeeded to the rights of Cameron, to cancel the Cameron lease, on the ground, substantially, of a failure to properly develop the land. A trial of that suit, on August 4, 1924, resulted in a judgment…