Legal Opinion

Danciger Oil & Refining Co. v. Burroughs

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided February 19, 1935No. 1054PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BRATTON, Circuit Judge.

The major question which the appeal in -this suit for specific performance brings here for decision is whether a contract resting in parol in which it was mutually agreed that the owner of eight lots in a block consisting of thirty-two lots Should execute and deliver an oil and gas lease upon his own property and secure similar leases from the respective owners of the remaining lots for a cash compensation of $500 and an overriding royalty of one-sixteenth of the oil, gas, and casing-head gas produced upon the entire block, was removed from the statute of frauds by…

2Cases cited39 opinions

  1. Boyce's Executors v. GrundySupreme Court of the United States · 1830
  2. United States v. NobleSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
  3. Williams v. NeelyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1904
  4. Castle Creek Water Co. v. City of AspenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1906
  5. Clark v. CagleSupreme Court of Georgia · 1914

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 96,263 Frank S. Yamamoto, Individually And, Derivatively, on Behalf of Investors Finance, Inc. v. Kazuo OmiyaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1977
  2. Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company, Mansfield, Ohio v. Robert Bowman and Walter Lewis and W. A. Thornberry, D/B/A Pete Thornberry & CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1963
  3. Meeker v. Ambassador Oil Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1962
  4. Ludwig v. William K. Warren FoundationSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1991
  5. Roussel v. RussellSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1959

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