Skeeters v. Granger

DAVIS, Justice.

On or about April 6, 1950, Cora Granger, a widow, and her children, executed an oil and gas lease to A. Z. Skeeters covering 76.5 mineral acres in a certain 87.5 surface acres of land, more or less, in the Wm. Watson Survey in Harrison County, Texas. No cash bonus was paid 'for the lease but it contained a provision for the payment of a bonus of $50 per acre out of ⅛ of ⅝ of any minerals produced from a block which was then being assembled by Skeeters. The lease required that drilling operations be commenced within 120 days within the block, which was done, and minerals were…