Watson Land Co. v. Rio Grande Oil Co.

BISHOP, J. pro tem.

The plaintiff has appealed, in each action, from that part of the judgment which recognized that the defendants had rights under an oil lease on the west thirty of some fifty-seven acres to which plaintiff’s title was otherwise quieted. It is plain, from the evidence and findings, that, except for very limited purposes, the rights of the defendants under the oil lease had terminated because there had not been a continued drilling of new wells on the demised property after the completion of the first well, unless the failure to drill the additional wells was excused, and the…