Spencer v. Transcontinental Oil Co.

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this suit in the Fourth district court of Louisiana, to have annulled a certain lease for oil and gas upon lands situated in the parish of Union. Defendant removed the case here upon the ground of diverse citizenship, and it has been submitted upon a stipulation to be decided at chambers in vacation.

The grounds of complaint were: First, a want of authority in one of the plaintiffs as tutrix of her minor children to enter into said lease; and, second, the nonperformance by defendant of the obligations of the contract.

Any defeet, if such there was, in…