Standard Oil Company of La. v. Oil Well Salvage

On April 24, 1919, one R. P. Combs and his wife executed an oil and gas lease to certain lands in Union County, Arkansas, which, by mesne conveyances, passed to the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana, hereafter called Standard company. That company entered upon the land and proceeded to develop the same under the lease. On August 2, 1921, Combs and his wife, the original lessors, executed to one W. L. Murray a a lease on the lands which authorized Murray or his assignees to operate what is commonly known as a pick-up station on a small branch running through the lands, the purpose of this…