L. S. Youngblood and M. L. McLain v. Hughes Seewald

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

This declaratory judgment action was brought by the owners of overriding royalties in the oil and gas production from lands in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, to determine the effect of a pooling order of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission upon their interests. They appeal from a judgment holding that when the plaintiff McLain, the owner of leases within the drilling unit, accepted a %th of %ths royalty in the production, in lieu of participating in the well, he was required to pay from his royalty income all burdens on the leases over and above the statutory V&tb. royalty.

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