Meeks v. Adams Louisiana Co.

LOVETT, District Judge.

Mrs. Amy Meeks, wife of S. A. Meeks, seeks to cancel an oil and gas lease on certain farming lands she claims to own in Coffee county, Georgia, and on which she resides. The lease purports to have been signed by “Mrs. S. A. Meeks”: Alleging she did not sign it, that it is not her act or deed, she wants it removed as a cloud on the title of her lands.

The defendants are the Adams Louisiana Company, the named lessee, a foreign corporation, and other non-resident persons who claim fractional interests in the leasehold through assignments from the lessee. Admitting the…