Norum v. Ohio Oil Co.

In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover from the defendants the sum of $539.20, royalty on oil produced from his land, alleged to have been by them wrongfully withheld from him. In his complaint the plaintiff alleges, in substance, that he was and is the owner of certain lands in Toole county, which on May 28, 1920, he leased for a period of twenty years to one Gordon Campbell for the exploration and development of oil and gas, which lease was thereafter assigned and transferred to the defendant, 'the Sunburst Oil & Refining Company; that subsequently, on May 19, 1924, the latter…