McNutt v. Whitney & Whitney

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

— Reversing.

On February 19, 1916, the appellees, M. Whitney and Bettie Whitney, who were plaintiffs below, executed and delivered-to A. Gr. Braswell an oil and gas lease on a tract of land in Allen county, Kentucky, -owned by one or both of them, which ¡entitled the lessee to explore the land for oil or gas for a period of five years and for the consideration therein named he agreed to complete a well -on the premises within three hundred and sixty-five days from its date, or if he should fail to do so to pay twenty-five cents per acre for each additional…