Brandt v. Roxana Petroleum Corp.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was a suit by the appellee, Roxana Petroleum Corporation, against the appellant, G. A. *981Brandt, to quiet the title of the former under the “agreement and lease” mentioned below to a tract of land containing 232 acres adversely claimed by appellant. The decree appealed from sustained the claim asserted by the suit.

In November, 1924, T. J. Poole, Sr., and T. J. Poole, Jr. (herein referred to as the Pooles), being the owners of a tract of land containing nearly 14,000 acres, executed to appellee a written “agreement and lease,” by the terms of which appellee was given…