Francis v. Pritchett

McGILL, Justice.

This was a suit in the statutory form of trespass to try title, the purpose of which was to cancel an oil and gas lease dated April 24, 1937, executed by Kathleen Hadden, W. A. Hadden, Laurance Berwick Westerman, Laurice Pritchett and Ray M. Pritchett, as lessors, to Cecil H. Lockhart as lessee, covering 186 acres of mineral land in Pecos County. Trial to the court without a jury resulted in a judgment cancelling the lease except as to 20 acres around a shut-in sour gas. well which had been brought in as a producer.

The portions of the lease relevant to this appeal are:

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