Legal Opinion
Weber v. Texas Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 12, 1936No. 7806PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STRUM, District Judge.
Texas Company, as plaintiff below, sued to enforce performance by the defendant, W. P. Weber, of certain option provisions of a Texas oil lease.
Natali and wife, owners of the land, on October 22, 1928, leased the same to H. C. Aiken for the purpose of prospecting and drilling for oil and gas. The lease, recorded November 30, 1928, ran for five years, called “the primary term,” and “as long thereafter as either oil or gas is or can be produced, from any well on said land.”
The lease reserved to the lessor a royalty of one-eighth of the oil and gas produced from the demised…
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