Waggoner & Zeller Oil Company v. Deike

SHANNON, Justice.

This appeal concerns a suit filed in the district court of Runnels County by Fritz F. Deike and wife, Truman Deike, for a declaratory judgment that an oil and gas lease had terminated because of the cessation, after expiration of the primary term, of production of oil and gas. Appellants are members of a partnership, Waggoner & Zeller Oil Company, and are W. M. Waggoner, A. E. Zeller, Anthony M. Ciof-fi, L. B. Howerton, Samuel Weill, Jr., John P. Strutzel, Richard G. Rawlins, and Maryann Rawlins. Upon trial to a jury, judgment was entered for appellee. Truman Deike, 1…