Hedges v. Combs

.Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson — •

Affirming.

■ Appellant Hedges instituted this action in the Payette circuit, court to recover $2,000.00 which he avers he paid to appellee Combs for a sixtjr-day option, giving him the exclusive right to purchase a one-sixteenth royalty interest in the oil and gas produced from a certain oil lease on Big Sinking creek in Lee county, Kentucky, which lease was, at the time of the making of the contract, being operated by two companies,- both producing quantities of oil from the said lease, the conditions of the contract upon which the payment was…