Collins v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.

Opinion.

DUNKLIN, J.

G. N. Collins leased to the Humble Oil & Refining Company, a private corporation, a tract of land abutting on the Leon river, to be used by the company in supplying water for drilling wells and general oil development work. He instituted this suit against the lessee to cancel that lease, and, pending final trial on the merits, be applied for a temporary injunction to restrain tbe defendant from further use of the property, upon the theory: First, that the lea'se was never a binding contract; and, second, that defendant has forfeited any rights it ever acquired under and by…