Fort Worth Nat. Bank v. McLean

LONG, Justice.

On April 24, 1925, Reynolds Cattle ¡Company, as lessor, executed and delivered to C. A. Gillam, lessee, an oil and gas lease covering 1,898 acres of land out of the north part of the A. Rodriquez Survey in Haskell County, Texas. The lease was for a primary term of five years from date and as long thereafter as oil or gas or either of them was produced from said land. It is upon the usual commercial form with no unusual covenants or agreements. Thereafter, the land was conveyed to T. G. Hen-drick. The lease, insofar as it covers the northwest one-fourth of tract 7 and the east…