Dormon Farms Co. v. Stewart

On January 20, 1920, W. V. Goodlett, who was then the owner of 640 acres of land in Howard County, executed to Earl A. O ’Hara an oil and gas lease thereon. On November 20,1920, O’Hara executed to the Superior Producing and Refining Company an assignment of the léase on 200 acres of the land; and that company, on September 19, 1921, reassigned the lease to the 200 acres to the Carmen Oil Company. One of the questions in the case is whether this last assignment is void for the reason that it fails to describe the land. The lease to O’Hara was filed for record January 20, 1920; the assignment…