Guess v. Harmonson

Zatthu Harmonson and wife, Sallie K. Harmonson, were the fee-simple owners, on May 11, 1918, and long prior thereto, of 240 acres of land situated in Young county, Tex., to be hereinafter more particularly referred to. On October 15,1917, for a recited consideration of $1 in cash, they leased the land to N. C. Harlan, trustee, “for the purpose of prospecting for oil, gas, and sulphur and the production of the same therefrom.” This lease, which was duly recorded and generally in a familiar form, granted the right of ingress and egress in and over the land to prospect, drill, mine the same, and…