Meyer v. Cox

NORVELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of dismissal entered upon plaintiffs’ refusal to amend after the trial court had sustained a special exception. A question of interpretation of a paragraph of an oil and gas lease is involved.

Plaintiffs, Oscar Meyer and wife, Irene Meyer, alleged that on July 9, 1946, they entered into an oil and gas lease with appel-lees, Rupert Oox and Taylor Refining Company, as lessees.

The petition states that a producing oil ■well was brought in upon the tract and that incidental thereto defendants had constructed upon the premises a salt-water pit, a gas…