Ocala Oil Co. v. Hughes

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant and defendant below, Ocala Oil Company, is a corporation, and at the time of filing this suit it was the owner by successive transfers of a lease which appellees and plaintiffs below, Rebecca Hughes and husband, J. M. Hughes, executed on May 2,1913, to W. May-field, under the terms of which the lessors- granted the lessee the exclusive right to mine and operate for oil and gas on thirty-four acres of land in Allen county owned by the wife. The usual stipulations giving the right to the lessee to construct pipe lines, tanks, and other…