Vedder Petroleum Corp. v. Lambert Lands Co.

SCHOTTKY, J. pro tem.

This is an appeal from a judgment in an action for declaratory relief to determine the rights, duties and obligations of the parties under the provisions of an oil and gas lease and to require payment by respondent lessor of the cost of dehydrating oil produced from the properties subject to the lease, and to recover the proportionate cost paid for dehydrating the royalty oil.

Appellant Yedder Petroleum Corporation, Ltd., was the lessee under an oil and gas lease dated April 22, 1936, wherein defendant and respondent Lambert Lands Company, was lessor. On February 10, 1937,…