Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Wagener

Caldwell county, asserting ownership to certain lands in that county immediately adjacent to and alongside one of its public roads, executed an oil lease thereon to Chas. H. Wagener, on February 21,1929. The legal title to said land was at that time in Lula B. Northcutt, wife of J. L. Northcutt. Prior to that date Mrs. Northcutt, joined by her husband, had executed an oil lease on the same land, which lease, through assignments, ■was owned by the Humble Oil & Refining Company. Because of the asserted title of the Humble Oil & Refining Company in and to seven-eights of the oil under said land,…