Godwin v. Orgain

DANIEL HOLCOMBE THOMAS, District Judge.

This was originally a bill in equity filed on May 31, 1957, in the Circuit Court of Washington County, Alabama, to cancel an oil, gas and mineral deed, or in the alternative to reform same so as to constitute it as a royalty deed only, *758and also to cancel an oil, gas and mineral lease executed by the grantee in said deed and his assigns to other defendants in the ease. The case was duly removed by the defendants to this Court. The cause came on for hearing before the Court without the aid of a jury, and the Court having heard the evidence and the argument…