Legal Opinion
Garcia v. King
Texas Supreme Court
Decided July 15, 1942No. 7905PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Alexander
This suit involves the construction of an oil and gas mining lease. The lease was to run for a period of ten years “and so long thereafter as oil, gas, or other minerals is produced from said land.” The material question to be determined is whether sufficient oil was produced from the land after the expiration of the primary period to keep the lease in force.
The lease in question covered 7,500 acres of land. From 1925 to 1929 the land was under a lease that required the payment of an annual rental of $13,284.00, regardless of the amount of oil produced. Lessees were unable to pay this annual…
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- Berthelote v. Loy Oil Co.Montana Supreme Court · 1933
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