Dacamara v. Binney

NORVELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying cancellation of a certain oil and gas lease in so far as it covered the south one-half of Block 9, and all of Blocks 12, 34, 37 and 36 of the Hughes Petroleum Company’s Subdivision of Los Ojuelos Grant, Survey 592, Abstract 1395, Webb County, Texas, containing 720 acres of land. Appellants, J. B. DaCamara, Jr., and others (plaintiffs below) own the surface rights and one-half of the minerals under said tract. The remaining one-half of the minerals is owned by Tidewater Associated Oil Company (which did not appear in the trial below)…