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PERKINS v. MITCHELL

No. A-4550.

268 S.W.2d 907 (1954)

PERKINS et ux. v. MITCHELL et al.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 7, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Buck W. McNeil, Lubbock, for petitioners.

R. H. Munsterman, Levelland, for Mitchell.

Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam, Lubbock, for Shield.

CULVER, Justice.

Petitioner, Perkins, leased to respondent, Mitchell, for oil and gas a tract of 203.4 acres in Hockley County. Thereafter the lease was assigned to Shield, a party defendant, who drilled one well in N.E. corner of tract. This well produced considered gas but little oil. Shield then retaining a 40 acre tract in the form of a square in N.E. corner, reassigned the remainder (163.4 acres) to Mitchell.

No further drilling was undertaken and Perkins...

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