Templeton v. Williard

Plaintiff brought this action against the defendants to obtain a decree of court to compel them specifically to perform a contract which he had entered into with them on the eighth day of August, 1925, by the terms of which he was “entitled to the possession” of a certain sixty-acre tract of land, and agreed to commence oil-drilling operations therein within ninety days, and prosecute the same with diligence until a depth of 1,600 feet was reached, unless commercial production of oil or gas was obtained at a lesser depth, and thereafter to drill not less than three wells per year on the…