Lane v. Urbahn

On February 24, 1919, Albert Urbahn and another executed to the Rio Grande Oil Gas Company an oil and gas lease upon a body of land, comprising about 53,000 acres, situated in Webb county. A second lease, in confirmation of the first, was executed by the parties on May 22, 1919. On May 26, 1921, Urbahn brought suit to cancel the lease, or for damages in lieu of cancellation, upon the grounds that the same had been procured through the fraudulent representations of the lessee, and the lessee had failed in its obligation to develop the land for oil and gas. A trial before the court, and without…