North American Petroleum Company v. Knight

CORN, Vice Chief Justice.

This is an action hy plaintiffs, James D. Knight, E. T. Knight, Lucille L. Knight and Ram Morrison, against the defendant North American Petroleum Company, a co-partnership composed of J. B. Lewin, R. R. Hart, Stanley D. Weiss and James Fishgrund for damages for a breach of the implied covenants of an oil and gas lease, alleging a failure to drill a well on the leasehold, and a failure to protect the leasehold from offset drainage. The parties will be hereafter referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

It is alleged in the petition of the plaintiffs that they…