Sunray DX Oil Co. v. Thurman

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

Appellee was the owner of a certain forty-acre tract located in Columbia County. On September 15, 1958, Shell Oil Company, which held an oil and gas lease covering said land, assigned the lease to Sunray DX Oil Company, appellant herein. The lease recites that it is given to the lessee “for the purposes of investigating, exploring, prospecting, drilling and mining for and producing oil, gas and all other minerals, laying pipe lines, building tanks, power stations, telephone lines, and other structures thereon to produce, save, take care of, treat, transport and…