Gillispie v. Blanton

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Reversing.

The appellees in the two above styled actions, Sam and Sarah Blanton, are husband and wife. He owns a small tract of land in Johnson county containing 38 acres. On January 3, 1922, they leased it to appellant, Ri Ch Grillispie, to develop for oil and gaa. By the royalty clause in the lease appellant agreed “to deliver to the credit of the first parties, their heirs or assigns, free of cost in the pipe lines to which party of the second part may connect his wells, the equal one-eighth part of all oil produced and saved from the leased…