Drummond v. Alphin

On April 21, 1919, J. S. Alphin and wife executed to Vincent L. Hanson an oil and gas lease covering 1,947 acres of land in Union County, Arkansas. The lease described twenty-seven tracts otf land, which are widely scattered over the county, some being as much as thirty miles from others, arid, altogether, the lands were in eleven different townships.. The lease contained the grant of all rights usually found in such instruments, and reserved to the lessor “the equal one-eighth royalty or share of all oil produced and saved upon the premises, to be delivered at the well,” etc., and required…