Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Mullican

This suit involves the question as to when the annual rentals were payable under a certain oil and gas mining lease.

Lon A. Mullican and wife owned a tract of land as their community property. She died intestate and he qualified as community administrator of her estate. Thereafter he executed an oil and gas mining lease on the land. The first sentence of this lease read as follows:

“This agreement made this 27th day of January, 1944, between Lon A. Mullican, individually, and as independent executor of the estate of Molly Mullican, deceased, Lessor (whether one or more), and G. B. Hallmark,…