Joyce v. Wyant

STARR, District Judge.

On July 6, 1950, plaintiff Joyce executed and delivered to one A. W. Hutchings an oil-gas-and-mineral lease covering 153 acres more or less in Caddo parish, Louisiana. *981Shortly thereafter Hutchings assigned an undivided ls/ie of lsAe interest in this lease to defendant Wyant and an undivided of 1?Í6 interest to defendant Koelbel. The lease and assignments were duly recorded. The pertinent provisions of the lease were as follows:

“Lessor in consideration of Lessee’s obligation to drill four wells on the premises herein leased as hereinafter set forth, of the royalties…