WOOD v. PATTERSON

No. 5-3732.

398 S.W.2d 672 (1966)

William R. WOOD, Jr., et al. Appellants, v. E. B. PATTERSON et al. Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

February 7, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crumpler & O'Connor, Mahony & Yocum, El Dorado, for appellants.

Spencer & Spencer, by Don Gillaspie, El Dorado, for appellees.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This is a suit by the appellees, the lessors, to cancel an oil and gas lease (in form two duplicate instruments) with respect to twenty of the forty acres covered by the lease. The appellants, the lessees, concede that some right of cancellation exists, but they insist that it extends to ten acres only —not twenty. The dispute actually turns upon a single question: Was the lessees' original application to the Oil and Gas Commission...

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