Iola Oil & Gas Co. v. Strauss

The opinion of the court was delivered.' by

Marshall, J.:

The defendant appeals from a judgment against him cancelling the assignment of a one-tenth interest in an oil and gas lease which assignment is alleged to have been procured by fraud practiced by the defendant on the plaintiffs.

*609The action was tried without a jury, and extensive findings of fact were made. The essential facts found were that plaintiff C. T. Kirk and the fourteen other personal plaintiffs named with him were partners “associated . . . together for the purpose of leasing lands, causing geological survey thereof to be made,…