Cain v. Neumann

POPE, Justice.

This is an action in trespass to try title and for the cancellation of an oil, gas and mineral lease. The questions presented are: (1) Whether an assignee of a lesser tract of land out of a larger tract covered by a base oil, gas and mineral lease, by releasing and surrendering the lesser part on which there is paying production and simultaneously taking back a new lease from the landowner, thereby effects a surrender and destruction of the entire base lease, though production in paying quantities continued without interruption; and (2) whether uranium is a mineral within the…