Dover v. Henderson

Appellee Talmadge Henderson and his wife owned three -lots in the town of Hatfield, on which they built a gasoline filling-station, which they leased to the Texas Company, a Delaware oil corporation. The corporation sub-let the property to appellant, to whom it sold and delivered oil and gas, and the rent was paid by adding one cent to the price of each gallon of gasoline, and the rent thus collected was paid to the Hen-dersons by the Oil Company in payment of its own rent. The first lease from the oil company to appellant was canceled by consent and a second lease contract executed. Talmadge…