Hollowell v. Satterfield

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

In the year 1901 the appellant, John W. Hollowell, the appellee, F. T. Satterfield, and O. 0. Larkin obtained, for an agreed consideration, of one E. M. Tyree a written lease, for a term of ninety-nine years, to the mineral rights in a farm in Caldwell county containing valuable deposits of the mineral known as “fluorspar.” In 1911 Larkin left the state and abandoned his interest in the *118lease. Thereupon Tyree executed a new lease to the mineral rights in the farm to Hollowell and Satterfield as equal partners, which continued in effect until the…