Hall v. McClesky
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Wichita County ; Edgar Scurry, Judge. Suit by E. A. McClesky against E. W. Hall and another. Decree for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
This suit was instituted, on February 1,1919, by E. A. McClesky, as plaintiff, against E. W. Hall and the Eleven Sands Oil & Gas Company, to cancel an oil and gas lease executed by plaintiff to defendant Hall, as trustee, on October 23, 1917, and the removal of the cloud east thereby upon the title to 200 acres of land covered by the lease. The basis for this relief was that plaintiff and three others had executed community leases to Hall, by the terms of which the lessee was to drill a well to a depth of 2,000 feet, unless oil or gas was found in paying quantities at a lesser depth, upon…
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