Coyne v. Simrall Corp.

McALLISTER, Circuit Judge.

The' Simrall Corporation filed its complaint against friendly and hostile defendants, asking that the court adjudge a certain provision in an oil lease to be invalid, and for an injunction, accounting, and appointment of a trustee. The district court held that the provision in question, relating to apportionment of royalties under a pro rata, pool arrangement, did not control the rights of subsequent grantees, whose deeds recited that they were subject to the lease; and on amended pleadings, asking reformation, the court removed the restrictions of the pool provision…