Hogg v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.

P. D. Hogg, plaintiff in error, being the owner of a tract of land, on February 2, 1908, executed and delivered to W. H. & D. W. Powers a lease whereby he granted, demised, leased, and let to said parties said land for the sole and only purpose of mining and operating for oil and gas. It was by the terms of said instrument agreed that the lease should remain in force for five years from its date and as long there*483after as oil or gas should be produced by the lessees, and in part consideration thereof the lessees agreed “to deliver to the credit of the lessor free of cost, in the pipe line to…