Waggoner Estate v. Sigler Oil Co.

Plaintiff in error, the W. T. Waggoner Estate, brought this suit against defendant in error, Sigler Oil Company, to forfeit or cancel a conveyance of oil and gas in a certain 3000 acres of land in Wilbarger County.

On January 27th, 1919, W. T. Waggoner and others, by a writing duly executed, for a consideration of $100,000 and stated covenants and agreements, leased 85,000 acres of land in the counties of Wilbarger and Baylor, including said 3000 acres tract to W. G. Burton, “for the sole and only purpose of mining and operating for oil and gas, and of laying pipe lines and of building tanks,…