R. Brannan and Bessie Brannan v. Sohio Petroleum Company, a Corporation

BRATTON, Chief Judge.

This case was here on a former occasion, Brannan v. Sohio Petroleum Co., 10 Cir., 248 F.2d 316. As stated on the former appeal, the complaint charged that plaintiffs assigned to defendant two 011 and gas leases covering lands in Oklahoma ; that the leases were for the primary term of five years terminating October 25, 1954; that each assignment reserved to the assignors an overriding royalty of one-sixteenth of seven-eighths of all oil and gas produced from the premises; that shortly before such leases expired, the defendant obtained from the owners of the land a top…