Oil Fork Development Co. v. Huddleston

•Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

(On July 17, 1919, W. B. Huddleston and wife executed to the Oil Fork Development Company an oil and gas lease on a tract of land in Cumberland county, “for the term of two years (and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced from the land leased and royalty and rentals' paid therefor).” The lease provided that it was to become null and void and no longer binding on either party if a well was not completed on the premises within six months, unless the lessee should thereafter pay monthly to the lessor $35.42 per month for each month’s delay in…