Bethlehem Supply Corp. v. Wotola Royalty Corp.

On January 7, 1935, Wotola Royalty Corporation and six other parties, who were the owners of the mineral estate in the east one-half of the west one-half of the northeast one-fourth of Section 45, Block 24, H. & G. N. Ry. Co. Survey in Wheeler County, Texas, entered into a written lease and drilling contract with one James G. Cloud. By the terms of this instrument the above-described land was leased to Cloud “for the sole and only purpose of mining and drilling for oil and gas, and of laying pipe lines and of building tanks, power stations, and structures thereon to produce, save and .take…