Hoskins v. Northern Lee Oil & Gas Co.

*629Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

The real question in the case presented by this appeal is, who is the true owner of the oil and gas in and under the eight-acre tract of land, in Lee county, on ■which appellee, Malissa Norman, now lives and claims both the surface and the mineral. A very large part of the record is devoted to the presentation for construction of a written contract of date May 4, 1920, between the Northern Lee Oil & Gas Company of the one part, and the assigns of two oil leases, executed by the two adverse claimants of the mineral in and under the •said land. Each…