Stewart Oil Co. v. Bryant

This action was instituted by the appellees (hereafter called plaintiffs) against the appellants (hereafter called defendants) to cancel the assignment by M. Gr. Wade, trustee, to the Stewart Oil Company, of .a lease to forty acres of land in the oil and gas region near El Dorado, in Union County, Arkansas, and to cancel a certain drilling contract entered into with one J. W. Clark, and for an accounting, etc.

On the 31st day of January, 1921, W. J. Ward, party of the first part, representing himself and other owners of the lease of the land in controversy, entered into an escrow agreement…