Peeler v. Smith

Appellee sued appellants and obtained judgment for the cancellation of a lease to bore for oil or gas on land belonging to appellants in Atascosa county, Tex. The contract was strictly a drilling contract. The appellee was to have a lease on the Peeler ranch of 6,000 acres.

It is not necessary to set out at length or in any detail, except where mentioned, any of the various provisions’of the contract. It is an ordinary lease contract with many provisions. The signatures were not all procured right away, but were later obtained, and the contract was filed with the Commonwealth Bank & Trust…