Stephenson v. Calliham

The appeal is from a judgment decreeing the cancellation of an oil and gas lease upon a tract of 209 acres of land in the Calliham field in McMullen county. In its essentials the contract was in the usual form of such instruments, and was for1 a period of two years from its date “and during drilling operations thereon, and as long thereafter as oil or gas or either of them is produced” from the land. The lease contained a stipulation that:

“It is expressly agreed that the lessor shall not have the right under this contract to declare a forfeiture without having first- given lessee notice in…