Tiller v. Fields

FANNING, Justice.

Mouzon Tiller and wife, Frances Tiller, brought suit against Bert Fields, W. S. Fields and H. T. Manning, Trustee of the Bert Fields, Jr. Trust, seeking a declaratory judgment that the pooling provision, contained in an oil and gas lease executed by the Tillers was altered after the execution of such lease by the deletion of the-words “such pooling to be into a unit or units not exceeding 40 acres each,” and that therefore the unitization of such lease and the tracts described therein with other tracts and leases into a 590.05 acre gas unit was unauthorized. The plaintiffs…