Coffman v. Hope Natural Gas Co.

POffbnbargbR, Judge:

Tbe disposition of a preliminary question, whether failure of the plaintiff to make his wife a co-partner with him is a fatal defect in procedure, may prevent inquiry as to the correctness of the decree in his favor in so far as it depends upon the merits of the cause.

The relief sought was inhibition of the entry of the defendant upon the plaintiff’s land for oil and gas operation, by an injunction, upon the theory of expiration of its lease, and reformation of the lease upon the hypothesis of a fraudulent alteration of its words relating to the commencement and expiration…