Hardy v. Union Producing Co.

ROGERS, Justice.

Plaintiffs brought this suit to annul an oil and gas lease and for attorney’s fees, predicating their cause of action on the failure of the lessee to drill a well on the leased premises within the primary term of the lease. The judge of the district court, after overruling exceptions of nonjoinder and of no cause of action and referring an exception of no right of action to the merits, heard the case on the merits and rendered judgment annuling the lease, and awarding plaintiffs $500 as attorney’s fees. The defendants, Ed E. Hurley, the original lessee, and the Union Producing…