Lockhart v. Williams

By this suit petitioner, Tom Lockhart, seeks to' recover from respondents, G. E. Williams, et al, an oil and gas payment of $15,000.00 out of the l/16th of the oil produced and to be produced from a well drilled on a small parcel of land in Gregg County. Judgment in the trial court in favor of the defendant was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 187 S. W. (2d) 234.

On February 7, 1935, Tom Lockhart executed and delivered to Mrs. Harriet Knox two oil and gas leases covering small, undivided interests owned by him in a tract of land containing approximately 290 acres out of the L. B. Outlaw…