Richardson v. Callahan

Action by plaintiffs, as successors in interest of certain lessors in a conveyance known as an oil and gas lease, to compel the assignee of the lessee thereunder to comply with a covenant therein to keep the premises free from liens arising from drilling and producing operations under said instrument. The question arose by the sustaining of respondent’s demurrer to the complaint without leave to amend. The facts, therefore, are not in dispute and the single proposition is presented as to whether the rules of equity will authorize relief. The prayer of the complaint is for damages, it is true,…