Saulsberry v. Siegel

Appellants, C. J. Saulsberry, et al., filed suit to cancel an oil and gas lease and have appealed from a decree in favor of the appellees, who are owners of a lease executed in 1922; and Saulsberry is the lessee named in a lease executed in 1951 on the same property. The chancellor’s decree sustains the 1922 lease and cancels the 1951 lease.

On April 5, 1922, Tennyson Allen and wife, parents of the appellants, Joe Allen and Marion E. Norton, executed to H. M. Johnson, trustee, an oil and gas lease on thirty acres of land, described as the south half of the southeast quarter of the southeast…