Senn v. Strange

CHAPMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a take-nothing judgment based upon a jury verdict in Kent County involving a suit filed by appellant, Claud Senn, against appellee, J. C. Strange.

The parties entered into an oral agreement by which appellee was to mine gravel on appellant’s land in Kent County in order to acquire Grade 5 gravel. 1 He was not to pay any cash royalty. The considerations moving to appellant were the byproducts of the mining operation. Those were sand and gravel, the latter being larger than Grade S, referred to in the record as gravel used for packing wells and making…