Greenwood Tyrrell v. Helm

* Writ of error refused November 19, 1924. The track of land over which this controversy arose, being 32 acres out of the W. C. Sartor pre-emption, in Eastland county, was owned by two cotenants. Each cotenant executed an oil and gas lease upon the land to Charles Pettit and another. These leases were not in the usual form of such instruments. They simply conveyed to the lessee the exclusive right to drill and operate for oil, gas, or other minerals in the land, and "to make as many attempts, if and as lessee shall desire, to find oil or gas in paying quantities on, in, or under said…