Ballard v. Stanolind Oil & Gas Co.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit was in equity over a narrow strip of oil land, containing 4.17 acres. It was brought by plaintiff, an oil company, against defendant, a land surveyor, to quiet title and remove the cloud which defendant had cast on plaintiff’s title and possession by obtaining leases from plaintiff’s remote grantors to the strip by assuring them that the land they leased him *589was not included in their prior lease under which plaintiff claims.

Plaintiff pleaded that by mesne conveyance it was the owner of oil leases on and that it was in possession of a solid block of land…