Hunt Oil Company v. Berry

The appellee filed his original bill against the appellant in the Chancery Court of Simpson County seeking the partial cancellation of an oil, gas and mineral lease executed by the appellee and his wife to the appellant dated April 15, 1944, and seeking the partial cancellation of a purported amendment to said lease dated Janu ary 12, 1954, and seeking the recovery of damages in the sum of $17,340.00 alleged to have been sustained by the appellee as a result of disparagement of appellee’s title caused by the assertion by the appellant of mineral rights under said amendment, which amendment is…