Boyd v. Phillips Petroleum Co.

J. M. WOLFINBARGER, Special Commissioner.

On June 13, 1958, the appellants James L. Boyd and his wife, Katie Jo Boyd, executed a lease on a tract of land in Ballard County in favor of appellee Phillips Petroleum Company, and it appears that on the same *737date a regular long form lease and what is known as a short form contract or lease was entered into, the latter being designated as “S. S. Lease.” It is not clear just why both were executed unless that was just a custom of the appellee in the operation of its business. The short form reads as follows:

*738The part of the lease noted as paragraph 3…