Tyler v. Bauguss

BOND, Chief Justice.

Laura.E. Bauguss, appellee, owned 200 acres of land in Henderson County, Texas, on which she and her husband, L. B. Bau-guss, had given an oil, gas and mineral lease to the Humble Oil & Refining Company, reserving unto themselves an undivided one-eighth (⅛) interest in and to all the oil, gas or other minerals in and under and that may be produced and mined from said - land. The leasehold and the land adjacent thereto being undeveloped oil property, in oil field lingo, “wildcat” territory, appellants, through the real estate firm of Griffith & Griffith, of Terrell, Texas,…