Warrior Drilling & Engineering Co. v. King

This is an appeal from an order granting the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment. In the order the trial court also denied the defendant's motion for summary judgment, and ordered the defendant, Warrior Drilling and Engineering Company, Inc. (Warrior)1 to pay the plaintiff, Martha McCracken King (King), $19,306.26 for royalties owed under certain mineral leases.

The case arose out of the following facts:

On November 27, 1973, D.D. McCracken and his wife, and J.E. King and his wife (the appellee in this case), executed two oil and gas leases (leases 1 and 2) to Warrior. Lease 2 included…