Ohio Oil Co. v. Cox

LAND, Justice.

Warren Cox is the owner of 60 acres of land in Webster Parish, described as the S.E. % of S.E. % and E. % of S.Wi % of S.E. 14 of Section. 23, .Township 21 North, Range 10 West. September 11, 1922, Warren Cox, the landowner, executed a mineral lease on the whole of this property to J. Y. Snyder for a term of three years, or until September 11, 1925. Tr. p. 62. February 19, 1924, this lease was transferred by J. Y. Snyder to The Ohio Oil Company. Tr. p. 67.- In October of 1925, Cox, and others then owning the minerals under sales out of Cox, executed an extension of the oil and…