Isom v. Rex Crude Oil Co.

GRAY, C.

One W: P. Book, of Los Angeles, wrote to the plaintiff at her residence, in the state of Mississippi, expressing a desire to rent a piece of land belonging to said plaintiff in the city of Los Angeles, for the purpose of erecting a tenement building thereon. In reality the land was valuable for oil, as Book well knew. He concealed all knowledge of oil from the plaintiff, and by fraud succeeded in getting a lease from her for three years, with the privilege of five more, at an agreed price of one hundred dollars per year. No permission was given in the lease to bore for oil, no…