Whelan v. Placid Oil Company

WILLIAMS, Justice.

W. N. Peal, a widower, and his four children, the owners of the fee simple title to the 146-acre tract out of the Betty Hum-phries Survey in Harrison County, Texas, involved in this litigation, on August 18, 1937, executed and delivered to W. W. Blocker as lessee a valid mineral lease covering the tract, styled herein the Peal-Blocker lease. The lease was for a primary term of 10 years from July 29, 1937, and “as long thereafter as oil, gas or other minerals are produced from said land.” Blocker assigned the lease to Gulf Oil Corporation in October 1937. The latter assigned…