Justice v. Burgess

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson

Reversing.

This appeal requires a review of a decree determining the right of a lessor’s vendee to recover of a lessee the stipulated rental payable under an oil lease on the land at the time of the obtainment of his deed.

J. W. Riley and wife, Kate Riley, in consideration of $1, executed and delivered to Ambrose G-eary, in the name of William Justice, as lessee, an oil and gas lease for a term of twenty years, and so long thereafter as oil or gas was produced, or the rental was paid by the lessee, as provided in the lease, on 600 acres of land situated in…