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CHRISTIE, MITCHELL & MITCHELL COMPANY v. HOWELL

No. 16329.

359 S.W.2d 658 (1962)

CHRISTIE, MITCHELL & MITCHELL COMPANY, Inc., et al., Appellants, v. Willard E. HOWELL, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied September 14, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sewell & Forbis, Decatur, Paul A. Smith, Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls and Tarlton Morrow, Houston, for appellant.

Paul Donald and Joe H. Cleveland Bowie, for appellee.

BOYD, Justice.

Willard E. Howell recovered judgment for damages occasioned by drainage of oil and gas from a tract of land on which Christie, Mitchell & Mitchell Company, Inc., and others, held an oil and gas lease, and for cancellation of the lease on a portion of the tract should the defendants fail to drill a well thereon within sixty days from the date of the judgment. The defendants appeal.

Appellants' lease covered an 83 acre tract in Wise County...

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