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  "name": "Hirsch v. Cadrin & Staten",
  "name_abbreviation": "Hirsch v. Cadrin & Staten",
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      "Hirsch v. Cadrin & Staten."
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        "text": "McHaney, J.\nAppellant, being the owner of a 20-\nacre lease in Ouachita County, permitting him to salvage waste oil and to operate a pick-up station for said purpose, and also the owner of certain personal property thereon, entered into a written contract of sale thereof with appellees, Oadrin and Staten, under date of July 12,1926, the pertinent parts of which are as follows:\n\u201cWhereas, the undersigned, Sylvain Hirsch, is now the owner of the above described lease, together with all rights, personal property, consisting of the following: One boiler, number..............................; one 10x12 National Mud Hog pump; one 6x6 pump; 500 feet of 4-inch pipe, unions, nipples; 2,500 feet of 2-inch pipe, unions and nipples; 150 feet of 114-inch pipe, together with unions and nipples; two oil-field shacks; 85 metal barrels; one icebox; three tables; three beds and bedding; cooking utensils; one set of glasses; 4 wooden dams; and all other personal property now located on the above described premises used in the operation of the pick-up station. Now therefore, for and in consideration of the sum of $15,000, paid and to be paid as follows: Two thousand dollars payable out of one-half of the seven-eighths of the first oil saved \u00a1and marketed from said premises; the balance $13,000 payable out of one-fourth of the first oil saved and marketed from said premises; I, Sylvain Hirsch, do hereby assign, set over and deliver unto J. L. Cadrin and J. B. Staten, and unto their successors and assigns, all my right, title and interest in and to the aforesaid lease, and in so far as it affects the south half of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 28, township 15 south and range 15 west, Ouachita County, Arkansas. A vendor\u2019s lien is expressly retained on said leasehold interest until this purchase money is paid in full, and the title to the aforesaid personal property is expressly retained in Sylvain Hirsch until the aforesaid purchase money is paid in full.\n\u201cTo have and to hold unto the said Cadrin and Staten, and unto their heirs and assigns and successors, subject to the conditions herein expressed. All conditions and covenants herein shall be binding on all assignees and grantees. It is hereby agreed that the grantees shall have thirty days in which to start operation, and that the amount due hereunder shall be paid within a reasonable time.\n\u201cExecuted July 12, 1926.\u201d\nA short time thereafter, Cadrin & Staten assigned a one-third interest in this lease to appellee Alice Cordell. Appellees operated s:aid pick-up station on said lease for a period of time, and salvaged, treated and sold to the Penn-Liberty Oil Company 1,455.57 barrels of oil of the net value, after deducting the severance tax and royalty, of $1,179.69, all of which was paid to C'adrin & Staten, at the direction of appellant. This was all the oil accounted for, although a very large quantity of waste oil had been captured and impounded in a lake covering about 1,000 acres on which the Hirsch lease bordered at the upper end. The upper end of the lease extended into the lake about 150 feet, and about '2 or 3 feet at the lower end. Appellees operated this pick-up station for nearly a year, and were unable to succeed in picking up much of the oil in the lake. They spent about $4,300 of their own funds in attempting to do so, without success. Suit was brought by appellant to enforce a vendor\u2019s lien to collect the $15,000 mentioned in the contract, and the trial court dismissed appellant\u2019s complaint for want of equity.\nThe chancellor, no doubt, had in mind the rule announced in the recent decision of this court in Gilbert v. Patterson, 174 Ark. 61, 295 S. W. 386, where one Haskell had taken over the oil lease holdings of the Columbia Oil & Has Company, and agreed to pay it therefor \u201cthe sum of $60,000 out of one-third of the first oil accruing to said Haskell from said lease.\u201d Haskell assigned said lease to other parties, and the question was whether the $60,000 was payable in any event, or only if oil was produced in sufficient quantities to pay said amount \u201cout of one-third of the first oil accruing to said Haskell\u201d therefrom. This court held that there was no obligation to pay except out of the oil, and, no oil having been produced, there was no liability. We are unable to distinguish this case from that. Here the contract provided that Cadrin & Staten would pay \u201ctwo thousand dollars, payable out of one-half of the seven-eighths of the first oil saved and marketed from said premises; the balance, $13,000, payable out of one-fourth of the first oil saved and marketed from said premises. \u2019 \u2019 They only succeeded in saving and marketing the quantity of oil of the value heretofore stated, appellant\u2019s share of which was released to appellees to further improve \u2018the property. We therefore hold that this case is ruled by that.\nFor a second ground of reversal, appellant says appellees were guilty of fraud in that they acquired a lease lower down, on the same stream, operated a pick-up station thereon, and fraudulently permitted appellant\u2019s oil to escape and be picked up in the lower station. We have examined the evidence in this regard carefully, and have reached the conclusion that the decree is not against the clear preponderance of the evidence. Cadrin testified that the lower lease and station belonged to Bob Staten, not the appellee, J. B. Staten, and that neither of the appellees had any interest in it. The evidence is also in conflict that the oil salvaged in the -Bob Staten lease, or Reynolds lease, as it is referred to, was oil that came over appellant\u2019s lease.\nWe find no error, and the decree is affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "McHaney, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Saxon, Wade & Warren, for appellant.",
      "Eugene II. Murphy and Frcmcis T. Murphy, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Hirsch v. Cadrin & Staten.\nOpinion delivered October 29, 1928.\nSaxon, Wade & Warren, for appellant.\nEugene II. Murphy and Frcmcis T. Murphy, for appellee."
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