Mon-Tex Corp. v. Poteet Et Ux.

Defendants in error, Lee Poteet and Oma Poteet, husband and wife, executed an oil and gas lease, of date May 21st, 1918, to J. A. Fisher and C. W. Gilliland. In consideration of the covenants of the lessees and the release of a mineral lease held by the lessees on other land of the lessors, the latter conveyed and leased unto the lessees a certain 80 acres of land in Comanche County “for the sole and only purpose of mining and operating for oil and gas and of laying pipe lines and of building tanks, power stations, and structures thereon to produce, save and take care of said products.” It…