Superior Oil Co. v. Dabney

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the 113th District Court of Harris County (Hon. Ben F. Wilson, Judge presiding), sitting without a jury, decreeing — pursuant to this State’s Declaratory Judgments Act, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. Article 2524— 1 — in material substance as follows:

“I. That the written agreement of the appellees (otherwise termed the Hutcheson heirs) with the appellant, The Superior Oil Company, on December 30, 1941, which has never been recorded, is a valid, subsisting agreement, binding and obligating the appellant to drill a well in search of oil, or gas, upon the…