Orfic Gasoline Production Co. v. Herring

This suit was instituted by appellant, seeking an injunction to restrain appellee from pulling the casing out of a gas well and appropriating same, and to quiet title in appellant to the casing and fixtures in and connected with said well.

In 1918, Joseph Terry and others executed an oil and gas lease contract to J. A. Mercer to 160 acres of land in Erath county. The lease provides that it shall remain in force for a term of two years from its date, September 3, 1918, and as long thereafter as oil or gas, or either of them, is produced from said land by lessee. It further provides that the…