Beene v. Midstates Oil Corporation

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

This civil action was brought by S. J. Beene, the owner of oil bearing lands in Columbia County, Arkansas, against Mid-states Oil Corporation, to obtain cancellation for fraud of a lease executed by plaintiff to defendant and to recover amounts alleged to be due the plaintiff under those terms of the lease which provide for the payment of royalty on production of oil and gas called overriding royalty addi tional to the one-eighth royalty required by the lease. The lease provided that the overriding royalty should be calculated on each well separately, and be fixed at…