Haslett v. Rice

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Mary Adeline Haslett, individually and in the capacities of executrix of her mother’s estate and guardian of her incompetent father, has appealed from a judgment holding that she is not entitled to any rights under an oil lease which her mother had held as assignee of the original lessee. The judgment was based on a determination that the rights under the lease had been lost by abandonment.

The lease was executed in 1921. A number of oil wells were drilled, and the lease was operated profitably for several years. In 1929, the lease was assigned to Mrs. Mary Haslett, mother…