Reed v. Hackworth

CAMMACK, Judge.: Rosa Hackworth, the appellee, filed this action for a declaration of her rights under an oil and gas lease she executed to C. M. Reed. The appellants, defendants below, are Momarc Utilities Corporation,’ the purchaser of the gas, C. M. Reed, and Delbert Reed, his son, who was a party to the contract with Momarc. The lease provided that Reed was “To deliver to the credit of lessor, free of cost, in the pipe line to which he may connect his wells, the equal one-eighth part of all oil (and gas) produced and saved from the leased premises.” The lease is silent as to the place of…