Heard v. Pratt

Plaintiff in error sued defendants in error to cancel that certain lease to S. H. Burt, dated February 27, 1920, on 1,334 acres of land in Refugio county, Tex.

The lease, expressing a nominal consideration of $1, was for the “purpose,of mining and operating for oil and gas and of laying pipe lines, and of building tanks, power stations and structure thereon to produce, §ave and take care of said products,” and to “remain in force for a term of three years from this [its] date, and as long thereafter as oil or gas or either of them is produced from said land by the lessee.” A further…