Hunter Co. v. Shell Oil Co.

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This appeal was taken by the Shell Oil Company, Inc., et al., defendants-appel lants, from a judgment of the lower court in favor of the Hunter Company, Inc., plaintiff-appellee, cancelling and annulling two oil, gas, and mineral leases and all assignments, sub-leases, and other instruments affecting them, insofar as those instruments cover and apply to the NWj4 of Section 8, Township 11 North, Range 14 West, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, and awarding the plaintiff-appellee the, sum of $1,500 as attorney’s fees.

The property involved in this suit (400 acres of land) is covered…