True Oil Company v. Gibson

Suit was filed in the District Court of Campbell County by True Oil Company for a declaratory judgment determining whether a certain oil and gas lease was valid and subsisting and whether the complainant was entitled to proceed, as a lessee, with drilling and development operations. The defendants were owners of the mineral rights in the land involved. Sinclair Oil & Gas Company and Shell Oil Company claimed rights under the lease. They were brought in as parties plaintiff on a counterclaim of the defendants.

The lease under consideration was originally given by Floyd E. Cook and Myrtle Cook,…