Corsicana Petroleum Co. v. Owens
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Seventh District, in an appeal from Wichita County. Mrs. Owens and others sued the Petroleum Co. Defendant had judgment and plaintiffs appealed. The judgment was reversed and the cause remanded (169 S. W., 192) whereupon the company obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The suit of the plaintiff, Mrs. M. J. Owens as surviving wife of M. J. Owens, deceased, and in her own behalf and for their children, was to cancel a mineral or oil 'lease upon 188 acres of land executed by herself and husband, June 6, 1911, in favor of the Corsicana Petroleum Company, upon the several grounds, (1) that it was a unilateral agreement and therefore void; (2) that the lessee had breached it by failing to complete an oil well on the premises within one year from the date of the instrument; and (3) that the lease had been abandoned by the lessee.
In the trial court, a verdict was…
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