Warren v. Amerada Petroleum Corp.

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This appeal was perfected by appellant, L. W. Warren, from an order of the trial court sustaining certain special exceptions to appellant’s pleadings which exceptions were filed by appellee, Amerada Petroleum Corporation, and the trial court thereafter dismissed appellant’s cause of action with prejudice following his refusal to amend his pleadings.

Appellant sought to recover damages in the sum of $2900 as a result of the failure of the said appellee, as lessee of the mineral rights under 90 acres of land situated in Hunt County, to drill a well thereon, or in the…