Wiley v. Davis

This is an action against Mrs. M. F. Davis and her five children to correct and enforce a certain oil and gas lease on 200 acres of land near Cotton Valley, La., and for $10,000 damages for having, subsequent to the granting of said lease to plaintiff, granted another lease on the same property to a third person, whereby plaintiff was prevented from disposing of his lease to another party.

The 200 acres belonged in indivisión to Mrs. Davis and her five children, one-half to the former.and one-tenth to each of the children, of whom three were of age and two were minors. The three children of…