Hall

pro tern. — These are consolidated actions for the purpose of quieting title against the various defendants to the property described in certain oil leases. Defendant Interstate Oil Corporation is the holder of said leases and appeals from the judgments rendered for plaintiffs.

Upon trial it was conceded by counsel for defendants that in each case the plaintiffs were the owners of the respective properties set forth in their respective complaints. The evidence offered and admitted showed an assignment by the defendants Augur, Trebell, and Young to the A. & T. Oil Company of the leases involved in each of the actions, bearing date of December 15, 1921; also an assignment by the A. & T. Oil Company of the leases involved in the above actions to Interstate Oil Company under date of December 31, 1921; also an assignment of said leases by the Interstate Oil Company to the Interstate Oil Corporation, dated January 24, 1922; all of which leases, save as to differences in names and properties, and differences not exceeding a period of two months in the respective dates of execution, are identical. The lease appearing in the transcript is dated May 5, 1921, and provides that in…