Gard v. Kaiser

BERRY, Justice:

This action was brought by Gene I. Gard and Don Allan Gard, plaintiffs [appellants], lessors herein, to cancel oil and gas leases for failure of lessees, Herman George Kaiser, Francis Oil & Gas Inc., Fell and Wolfe Oil Company, Jene Eichenberg, Mildred Sanditen, Renee Neuwald, Rose Schlanger, Adolph Neuwald, and Walter Kaiser, all General Partners, d/b/a Kaiser-Francis Special Account “B”, a General partnership, defendants [appellees] to pay shut-in gas royalty.

The question in this case is the effect of failure to pay shut-in royalty to lessors under shut-in gas provisions of…