Carter Oil Co. v. Popp

Opinion by

PRYOR, O.

Tbis is an action commenced by Pbillip W. Popp and Mary E. Popp, defendants in error, against tbe Carter Oil Company, a corporation, plaintiff in error, to cancel a certain oil and gas mining lease on lands owned by tbe plaintiffs in error, lying in Garfield county,. Okla. On tbe 18tb day of March, 1916, tbe date of execution of tbe lease in question, tbe legal title to tbe premises was in tbe Oklahoma State Bank of Enid, Okla. Tbe plaintiffs were in possession of tbe premises and occupying the same as their homestead under a contract to purchase from tbe bank. Tbe oil and…