Campbell v. Nako Corporation

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harman, C.:

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court refusing to open up a judgment cancelling an oil and gas lease, rendered on publication service against the owner of an overriding royalty interest in the lease.

The lease was originally executed in 1907 to extend for a term of ten years and so long thereafter as oil and gas is produced in paying production. It appears to have been one held by production and was acquired by Nako Corporation, an Illinois corporation, in 1961, subject to a retained one-sixteenth (Us) of seven-eighths {%)…