Tipps v. Bodine

JOHNSON, Chief Justice.

April 25, 1930, Mrs. Effie Tipps owned the fee title to a certain tract of land in Rusk county. On that date she executed to Shaw, Shipp & Spivey an oil and gas lease covering the land. It was the usual commercial lease, for a primary term of five years and as long thereafter as oil or gas be produced therefrom. It provided that the lessee should deliver to the credit ■of the lessor free of cost in the pipe lines to which lessees might connect their wells, the equal one-eighth part of all oil produced and saved from the premises and to pay lessor the market price for…