Sims v. Parker

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of Kiowa county. The plaintiffs in error, as plaintiffs, instituted a suit against the defendants in error, as defendants, praying for the cancellation of an oil and gas lease and an oil and gas grant held by the defendants on the land belonging to the plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs alleged in their petition, in substance, that Walter Darby and Russel Darby made oral representations to the plaintiff William P. Sims that they were subagents of some undisclosed agent, securing a block of acreage of oil and gas leases for the Mar-land Refining…