Castle Brook Carbon Black Co. v. Ferrell

Williams, Judge:

On the 5th of August, 1907, O. F. Ferrell and wife executed to the Brammer Oil & Gas Company an oil and gas lease upon 214 acres of land in Logan county. That company made an absolute assignment of the lease to the Castle Brook Carbon Black Company, the plaintiff, on the 19th of May, 1913. A paying gas well was drilled -on the land in the year 1910, and plaintiff has been using the product therefrom in the manufacture of carbon black, and has paid regularly the gas royalties therefor, which the lease stipulates shall he $50 for each three months in advance, for each and every…