Navarro Oil Co. v. Cross

Acting for himself and as agent of the State, John T. Cross, the owner of a tract of mineral classified land in Winkler County which the State had sold with a mineral reservation, made Navarro Oil Company an oil and gas lease February 8, 1928. As part of the consideration the lease recited a cash bonus of $12,-000.00, which Navarro paid Cross shortly after the lease was made. On August 31, 1938, the State filed suit against Navarro for $6,000.00 as its one-half of the bonus for the lease. Arts. 5367-5379, R. S. (Relinquishment Act) ; Greene v. Robison, 117 Texas 516, 8 S. W. (2d) 655; Empire…