HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY v. KUNKEL

No. 14063.

366 S.W.2d 236 (1963)

HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, Appellant, v. H. L. KUNKEL et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Price, Houston, for appellant.

Matthews, Nowlin, Macfarlane & Barrett, P. H. Swearingen, Jr., San Antonio, Fred V. Klingeman, Karnes City, for appellee.


POPE, Justice.

Was the lease continued in force by production outside the lease but within a pooled unit, when the unit was declared after the expiration of the primary term but within sixty days from the abandonment of a dry hole? The trial court, in a summary judgment, held that the lease had terminated. We affirm the judgment.

H. L. Kunkel and others, lessors, sued Humble Oil & Refining Company to determine whether the Kunkel lease on 145 acres of Karnes...

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