Brooks v. Mull

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DawsoN, C. J.:

This was an action to procure a declaratory judgment touching the respective rights of the grantor and grantee of a tract of land where the instrument of conveyance reserved to the grantor an interest in the oil, gas and other minerals for a period of years.

Since that conveyance was executed the property has been leased for oil and gas development upon a down payment of one dollar per acre and an agreement of the lessee to pay an additional dollar per acre annually as delay rental- — for the privilege of holding the land in lease without…