Navarro Oil Co. v. Cross

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This suit grew out of an oil and gas lease covering a tract of land bearing a mineral classification, executed pursuant to Articles 5367 et seq., Revised Civil Statutes, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 5367 et seq., commonly known as the Relinquishment Act. The lease was executed by defendant and wife as lessors, in favor of plaintiff, as lessee.

Plaintiff, Navarro Oil Company, sued defendant, John T. Cross, for the sum of $6,-000, alleging that the purchase price or bonus paid for the lease was $12,000; that plaintiff did not know that at the time this money was paid that…