Gray v. Taylor

On May 9th, 1921, W. H. Taylor and wife, the owners of the fee, executed to H. C. Lampkin and F. W. Dumraese an oil and gas lease on 20 acres of land in Archer County. One of the stipulations in that instrument was the agreement of the lessees "to deliver to the credit of the lessors, free of cost, in the pipe line to which they may connect their wells, the equal 4/8ths part of all oil saved and produced from said leased premises."

On May 11th, 1921, those lessees entered into a contract with S.D. Harper and J. E. Jones, composing a partnership, by the terms of which Harper and Jones…