Legal Opinion
Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 24, 1944No. 232PublishedCited by 937 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
This litigation, begun a decade ago, has been terminated by a summary judgment, and whether rightly so is the issue. The suit has weathered four adjudications, including two trials, in District Court and four decisions by the Court of Appeals.1 We will recite only such of its *621history as bears on the issues as to summary judgment, since we consider no other question.
Sartors are landowners in Richland Parish, Louisiana, who in March of 1927 leased their lands for natural gas development. The lease, so far as here important, provides that “. . . the grantor shall be paid one-eighth (%) of the…
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