Cordell v. Enis

Appellees instituted suit .against appellant in the chancery court of Union County to cancel an oil and gas lease which they executed to her on a ten-acre tract of land in said county, upon the alleged ground that she failed to drill a well on the land therein described, or to pay rent thereon, within the time specified in the lease.

In apt time appellant filed an answer denying that she had forfeited her contract on account of her failure to drill a well or pay delay rentals, and interposing, among other defenses, a waiver by her to pay delay rentals within the time specified1 in the lease.

The…