Youngman v. Shular

W. O. MURRAY, Chief Justice.

On October 29, 1936, Rem B. Love and Elizabeth Love (now Mrs. Shular) were husband and wife, and on that day executed an oil and gas lease to The Texas Company upon their homestead, consisting of 112.1 acres of land, fully described in the pleadings, and located in Atascosa County, Texas. Afterwards, in May, 1944, Rem B. Love died intestate, leaving as survivors his wife, Elizabeth Love, and five daughters. At the time of Rem B. Love’s death no oil wells had been drilled on their homestead, but in 1946 The Texas Company, acting under the above lease, drilled an oil…