Luton v. Martin

In the latter part of 1953, a Mr. C. H. Frost and the defendant in error, George F. Martin, entered into an agreement whereby Frost, with financial assistance from Martin, was to acquire a block of oil and gas leases in eastern Pawnee County which they hoped so sell at a profit. To complete this block of leases it was concluded, in the early part of 1954, that the south eighty acres of the SWJ4 of Sec. 8, Township 20 North, Range 7 East, Pawnee County, owned by a Mr. and Mrs. Nix, should be included. Investigation disclosed that plaintiff in error owned a ninety-day lease on all of the…