Vance v. Hurley

FOURNET, Justice.

This is a suit for cancellation of a mineral lease on the ground that it had expired under its own terms since the well located on the property is not: producing oil and gas in paying quantities; in the alternative, for the non-payment of a production payment due under the terms of the lease in the amount of $9,517.50, as well as for judgment covering this amount and- for attorney fees of $5,000.

The defendants denied the well drilled on the leased premises is not producing, in paying quantities, averring, in the alternative, that if the.lease>is cancelled, then that there be…