McLachlan v. Stroube

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Harry McLachlan and others sued H. R. Stroube and others for the purpose of having construed a royalty reservation in an assignment of an oil and gas lease from the McLachlans to the Stroubes, to have determined the effect of commitment of the tract to a unit operation and water flooding program and to recover engineering expenses alleged to have been required by improper conduct of defendants. The McLachlans asserted a right to recover royalty from oil produced by a water flood unit and allocated to the tract in which they own royalty based on %eths of the oil which…