Skelly Oil Co. v. Butner

The issue herein is which of two oil and gas mining leases covering the same premises is valid, and the question presented is one of law.

Herein the parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court— plaintiff in error, Skelly Oil Company, as defendant, and defendant in error, J. D. Butner, as plaintiff.

One J. L. Davis, then owner in fee of the entire estate in the northeast quarter of northeast quarter of section 11, township 6 north, range 8 east, Hughes county, Oklahoma, subject to an outstanding oil and gas mining lease, joined by his wife as co-grantor, executed an…