Gertrude L. Archer Et Al. v. Skelly Oil Company

This appeal is from a summary judgment granted Skelly Oil Company by the trial court. Gertrude L. Archer, a widow of Hansford County, Texas; Harriet Thomas Collard, a widow; Harriet Thomas Collard and R. L. McClellan, executrix and executor respectively of the estate of J. R. Collard, deceased, brought this suit against Skelly Oil Company in trespass to try title and alternatively sought termination of an oil and gas lease on 2 3/4 sections of land upon which the primary term had ended. The oil and gas lease entered into between Mrs. G. L. Archer and the Skelly Oil Company was on a regular Oil and Gas Producers Eighty-eight Form, was dated August 5, 1943, provided for a primary term of 10 years but had the following rider or addition added to the lease before the grantor, Mrs. Gertrude L. Archer would sign it: