MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. v. WILSON

No. 4814.

215 F.2d 317 (1954)

MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. v. WILSON.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 13, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Richards, Oklahoma City, Okl. (Earl A. Brown and Charles B. Wallace, Dallas, Tex., on the brief), for appellant.

Joe B. Thompson, Ardmore, Okl., for appellee.

Before BRATTON, HUXMAN and MURRAH, Circuit Judges.


HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the trial court, cancelling the undeveloped portion of appellant's oil and gas lease. On May 12, 1917, Willie Wilson, a three-fourths blood Choctaw Indian, executed a departmental oil and gas lease to Edwin B. Cox, covering 310 acres of land situated in Sections 16, 21 and 27, Township 2 South, Range 2 West, the exact description of which need not be given. In 1920 Cox purchased 37½ acres of the land...

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