Stauffacher v. Cook

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammack

— Reversing.

Alex Cook instituted this proceeding against Clint Whittle and the owners of an oil and gas lease on a small tract of land to which he asserted ownership. He asked that he be made a party to a proceeding instituted by Whittle against the owners of the lease in order that he might assert his ownership therein and he asked also that the lease be cancelled. Cook alleged, among other things, that the lease had been forfeited, presumably by failure to develop it properly. Early in May, 1937, the appellant, I. M. Stauffacfier, filed a pleading…