Powell v. Hammon Consol. Gold Fields

LOMEN, District Judge.

The importance of these cases may be measured by the amounts involved and the installments which will annually fall due under the leases until 1935, aggregating about $800,000. ,-The action already tried furnishes a precedent, in part, for judicial determination. The contracts upon which the present actions are founded are the same as in the former case; but the relation of the parties has changed, it is claimed, in the particular that in the said former case the royalties and minimum annual payments had already accrued, before the alleged surrender of the premises by…