Le Rosen v. North Central Texas Oil Co.

The defendant company seeks the annulment of a judgment of the Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit, affirming a judgment of the district court of the parish of Caddo, recognizing the expiration of an oil and gas lease, with reservation of plaintiff’s right to sue for damages and attorney’s fees.

On December 21, 1925, plaintiff, a married man, executed an oil and gas lease covering a certain tract of land in Caddo parish. The lessee was one A. D. Madding, who subsequently assigned the lease to the defendant company.

The lease, which is known in some states as an “unless lease,” provides,…