Gregg v. Caldwell-Guadalupe Pick-Up Stations

A statement of this case, as presented in the Court of Civil Appeals (276 S. W. 342), is thus made in the opinion of that court, reversing the judgment of the trial court:

“One of the appellants, the United North & South Oil Company, herein designated as the Oil Company, was the owner of an oil and gas lease executed in the year 1919 by J. E. Allen and wife. The lease was in the usual form of such contracts, and originally covered two tracts of land in Guadalupe county, embracing 140 acres and 200 acres, respectively. Prior to the transactions now in controversy, however, the lease was…