Goble v. Goff

(for affirmance). In this case a bill of complaint has been filed seeking a decree to void a certain oil lease. In 1944, plaintiffs became the owners of certain land in Bloomingdale township, Van Bnren county, and in 1948 gave an oil lease to one DeVries covering said land. Defendants, Carl C. and L. D. Goff, claimed that they had a valid preexisting oil lease on the land, obtained in August, 1941, from the then owners of the land who had sold it to plaintiffs in 1944. Plaintiffs thereupon filed the bill of complaint in this case, claiming that the said Goff lease had expired and had been…