Walker v. Limestone Oil & Gas Co.

The parties occupy the same relative position here as in the trial court and will be hereinafter referred to as plaintiffs and defendants.

Plaintiffs sought to cancel an oil and gas lease on 80 acres of land upon which defendants had drilled several producing oil wells and from which plaintiffs had received and were receiving a royalty of one-sixth of the oil produced. The district court entered a judgment canceling the lease as to all sands under and other than the sand from which defendants’ wells were producing, and sustaining the lease as to that particular sand, which was known as the…