Mora v. Ruffin

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

C. T. Ruffin, who is the defendant in this suit, sold to Antonio R. Mora and O. T. Brightwejl, who are the plaintiffs, an oil and gas lease on a tract of land having an area of only three acres and a very small fraction of an acre. The price was $3,000 and was paid by Mora and Brightwell to Ruffin in cash. At the same time, and as a part of the transaction, the parties signed a collateral agreement by which Ruffin obligated himself to obtain from the department of conservation a permit for Mora and Brightwell to drill on the small' area of land covered by the lease. At…