Unity Oil Co. v. Hill

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Moorman

Reversing.

On December Í5, 1917, George C. Hill and his wife executed to Paul Wright an oil and gas lease on a tract of land in Allen county. The Unity Oil Company is the remote vendee of the lessee, and in April, 1920. the lessors filed a suit against the oil company in the Allen circuit court for a cancellation of the lease and to quiet their title to the leased property, alleging that the lease was unilateral and did not constitute an enforceable contract, and that the oil company had violated the covenants of the lease in that it had failed and refused…