Guleke v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.

STOKES, Justice.

This suit was filed by appellants to cancel an oil and gas lease held by appellee Phillips Petroleum Company on a half section of land owned by appellants and located in Moore County. The lease was executed by appellants’ grantors, J. A. Box and wife, Laura E. Box, to Humble Oil and Refining Company. After the lease was executed appellants purchased the land and appellee Phillips Petroleum Company, by assignment from the original lessee, became the owner of the oil and gas lease subject to an over-riding royalty of one-thirty-second of any oil or gas that may be produced. The…