Texas Co. v. Davis

Defendants in error have filed a motion for rehearing and supporting arguments, which challenge the correctness of the conclusion that the “payment clause had no relation to anything save prevention of a forfeiture from failure to drill within two years from the date of the grant.” It is earnestly insisted that our holding should have been that completion of a producing well, without anything more being done, continued the grant in force for the full term of 25 years.

Our conclusion is not accurately expressed in the quoted portion of the opinion, which was prepared under the stress of the…