Doyle v. Chief Oil Co.

Defendants appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of plaintiffs for the sum of $3,315.66 and interest, as actual damages, and the further sum of $500, as exemplary damages, in an action for fraud arising out of an oil and gas lease.

The respondents Doyle, as owners and lessors, on March 26, 1934, entered into an oil and gas lease with one C. G. Truitt, as lessee, covering certain premises situate in the city of Signal Hill, under the provisions of which lessors were to receive as royalty 12% per cent of all oil and gas produced from such premises. On November 2, 1934, said Truitt and Ms…