Boettcher Oil & Gas Co. v. Westmoland

This is an action by the owners of an undivided interest in the oil and gas rights in certain land against the oil and gas lessee to recover damages arising from defendant’s failure to release said lease after the alleged abandonment thereof.

Verdict and judgment were for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.

Plaintiffs and certain other parties owned the mineral rights under the land in question, and the defendant as their lessee drilled a producing gas well thereon from which royalties were paid said owners for a number of years. While the well was still producing, the plaintiffs and some of…