Lockwood v. Moore

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

Moore brought this suit against Lockwood to quiet Moore’s title to an undivided one-half interest in an oil and gas lease on 100 acres of land in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, and to cancel certain instruments of record as clouds on his title.

On October 29, 1932, R. W. Simpson and Ethel C. Simpson, his wife, executed and delivered to H. L. Wirick an oil and gas lease on the land herein involved. It was recorded November 30, 1932. On December' 13, 1932, Wirick and Moore entered into an executory contract whereby Wirick agreed to sell and Moore agreed to purchase an…