Trinidad Petroleum Co. v. Pioneer Natural Gas Co.

BLANCHE, Justice.

Plaintiff is lessee holding, by assignments, two mineral leases. The leases were granted originally by Pioneer as lessor.1 The petitions allege that plaintiff holds a working interest in the lease affecting one tract of land and all of the executive rights in a second lease affecting another tract of land.2 In this suit the relief sought by plaintiff against Pioneer has several objects. First, it would recognize that the lease is still in force. It also alleges that the lease should not be cancelled or treated as having been ended by prescription because plaintiff was…