Trinity Production Co. v. Bennett

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment based upon a jury verdict awarding property damages in the sum of $350 by reason of the accidental death of a cow on the range when she got her head caught in a moving oil well pump. On May 22, 1934, L. P. Bennett and wife Ruth Bennett, then owners of the section of land in question situated in Yoakum County, Texas, executed an ordinary oil and gas lease in the usual form on the said land to Ralph W. Leftwich. The said lease has since been continuously operative but the son of the lessor, Gene Bennett, appellee herein, succeeded his…