Texaco, Inc. v. Texas Oil & Gas Corp.

ROMANG, Judge:

This is a quiet title action brought by Texaco Inc. to quiet its alleged title to an oil and gas leasehold on an undivided five-sixteenths of the oil and gas in and under 320 acres of land in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Texaco claimed the five-sixteenths leasehold by virtue of its 1958 oil and gas lease on the 320 acres of land.

*648Defendant, Texas Oil & Gas Corp., claimed to have a leasehold on an undivided one-sixteenth of the oil and gas in and under the 320 acres of land, and this one-sixteenth was included in the five-sixteenths claimed by Texaco.

After the case was at issue,…