Crye v. Giles

DREW, Judge.

This is a suit to annul and cancel from the records an oil and gas lease executed by plaintiff to the defendant in the year 1936. The reason alleged for annulling the lease is that defendant, lessee, failed to commence drilling operations on the land covered by the lease within the period specified therein.

Defendant denied that he had violated any of the provisions of the lease and specially denied that he had failed to commence drilling operations within the period of time specified in the lease.

These are the only issues raised by the pleadings, however, a copy of the lease is…