Hancock Oil Co. v. Hopkins

Plaintiffs, lessees under an oil and gas lease, brought this action to enjoin defendants, their lessors, from declaring a forfeiture of the lease for failure to

pay landowner’s royalties to defendants. The judgment was in favor of plaintiffs. It ordered plaintiffs to pay to the clerk of the court all landowner’s royalties accruing under the lease and enjoined defendants from declaring a forfeiture of the lease for failure to pay royalties, pending the final determination of another action then pending in which third parties claimed title to the demised land and the royalties. Defendants…