Hardtner v. Dixie Oil Co.

This is a suit to enforce specific performance of an alleged contract for the purchase of an oil and gas lease. The trial.in the district court terminated by the rendition of a judgment rejecting plaintiff’s demand and dismissing the suit at his cost. From this judgment plaintiff appealed.

The petition alleges that plaintiff acquired a mineral lease on property described as lot 13, section 13, township 10 N. E. 13 La. meridian, located in the parish of La Salle, La., from the state of Louisiana; that defendant proposed to purchase the rights of plaintiff in and to said lease for the sum of…