Woolley v. Simpson

This is an action to cancel certain oil and gas conveyances on the ground of fraud in their procurement. The plaintiffs, W. W. Woolley and Lillie B. Woolley, husband and wife, were the owners of a 385-acre tract of land in the vicinity of the “Eitts” oil pool in Pontotoc county. They sued R. W. Simpson, L. H. Harrell, W. B. Osborn and his wife, Jewell Hope Osborn, and also the Amerada Petroleum Corporation, on the ground that by fraudulent misrepresentation they had been induced to convey an undivided one-half interest of the “royalty” under a 250-acre tract, another undivided one-half…