Legal Opinion
Fetzer v. Cities Service Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 13, 1978No. 77-1076PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, Fetzer and Robinson, filed an accounting action claiming a percentage of proceeds from sale of oil and gas recovered from two strips of land, described as sections 14 and 26, which are portions of a railroad right of way located in Arkansas. Plaintiffs base their claim on royalty interests under a lease from Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company, successor of the original Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad. The original defendants named were Cities Service Oil Company and Louisiana-Nevada Transit Company, purchasers of the oil and gas recovered from the drilling…
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