Texas Pac. Coal & Oil Co. v. Gholson

* Writ of error granted March 7, 1928. On October 23, 1917, W. C. Gholson, hereinafter styled plaintiff, conveyed to the Texas Pacific Coal Company, whose name was subsequently changed by charter amendment to the Texas Pacific Coal Oil Company, an oil and gas lease on 63 1/2 acres of land near the city of Ranger, Eastland county, Tex., as shown by the instrument of conveyance, the pertinent portions of which are as follows:

"This lease made and entered into this 23d day of October, A.D. 1917, between W. C. Gholson, of Ranger, R. F. D. No. ______, and state of Texas, first parties, and the…