Collins v. Mount Pleasant Oil & Gas Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This was an action to set aside an oil-and-gas lease which Timothy Collins and his wife executed and delivered to E. T. Browning and H. A. Cartwright on March 23, 1904. The lease was duly *484•assigned to the Mount Pleasant Oil and Gas Company, the appellant herein. Some of the substantial terms ■of the lease were that, on the payment of $160, the lessees should have the exclusive right, for five years from the date thereof, to enter upon the leased lands, ■consisting- of Í60 acres, and drill and operate for oil •and gas; that the lessees…