Morris v. Messer

This suit was brought to forfeit an oil lease. Complainant is the lessor and the defendant is an assignee of the lessee. The Chancellor decreed a forfeiture and the defendant has appealed.

The bill contained charges that complainant was overreached in the negotiation of the lease and averments of facts tending to show that the equities of the situation called for a forfeiture. All charges of fraud were denied as well as all charges indicating that a continuance of the lease would work any hardship upon the complainant. Neither complainant nor defendant took any proof, and the case went to the…