Irvine v. MacGregor

This is an appeal from judgment in favor of plaintiffs in an action to recover an alleged sum of money due them as an additional royalty or bonus under the provisions of an oil lease.

Plaintiffs, owners of certain real property, entered into a written agreement with defendants MacGregor and Simmel, leasing their land to these parties for oil drilling purposes. About two weeks later said lease was assigned by the last mentioned defendants to defendants Lewis, Underwood, and MacGregor as trustees for “MacGregor Syndicate No. 1.”

Tbe provision of the lease under which recovery is sought reads as…