Batex Oil Company v. La Brisa Land and Cattle Co.

BARROW, Justice.

This is a venue case. Suit was brought by La Brisa Land and Cattle Company in the District Court of Starr County, against Batex Oil Company, H. J. Porter, James W. Porter and R. L. Wheelock, along with other named defendants, to cancel and annul an oil, gas and mineral lease on a certain .tract of land situated in Starr County, on the ground that the oil and gas wells on said .land are not producing in paying quantities; and in the alternative plaintiff prayed for cancellation of said lease covering all the land in said tract except twenty acres surrounding each of the…