Rowland v. Griffin

On September 5,1919, John Alderson and wife executed to James A. Rowland an oil and gas lease on eighty acres of land in Union County, Arkansas, for a period of ten years and as long thereafter as oil and gas, or either of them, were produced from the land under the terms of the lease. This was before oil and gas were discovered in Union County. On October 2, 1920, Alderson and wife executed a deed of trust to Finn Craig, as trustee, in favor of J. A. Rowland, on the tract of land above mentioned. This deed of trust was to secure an indebtedness to Rowland in the sum of $648.68, bearing…