West v. Carpenter

DENTON, Chief Justice.

Appellee, Minnie Carpenter, joined by her husband, H. W. Carpenter, brought this suit against appellant, W. W. West, alleging a breach of an oil and gas lease contract. The oil and gas lease with ap-pellees as lessor and appellant as lessee was executed on December 3, 1956. By this suit appellees sought a cancellation of the lease in addition to damages to their land as a result of salt water going onto the land from the test well being drilled by appellant. Based on a jury verdict, the trial court entered judgment for ap-pellees in the amount of $5,848.68, but denied…