Butler v. Jenkins Oil Corporation

WALTHALL, Justice.

Plaintiffs, Jenkins Oil Corporation and W. B. Hamilton, brought this suit against the Crown Central Petroleum Corporation to recover the sum of $1,983.80 alleged to be due for ⅝2 °£ ⅞ of the gross production of oil produced from a thirty-acre lease, between the dates of September 21, 1931, and August 31, 1932, inclusive. Plaintiffs operated the lease during said period of time and delivered all the oil produced therefrom to defendant Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, and defendant corporation had withheld accounting to plaintiffs for the ⅛2 of the ⅞ of the or: produced,…