Kinne v. Duncan

This is an appeal from a decree rendered in a mining partnership accounting suit involving an oil lease.

For convenience the litigants will be referred to as follows: Harry C. Kinne as “Kinne,” Helia Kinne as “Mrs. Kinne,77 Elnora Horton as “Mrs. Horton,” Dick Duncan as “Duncan,” Allen A. Borton as “Borton” and First United Finance Corporation as “finance corporation.”

Duncan is in the business of drilling oil wells in Texas and in Illinois. On April 26,1937, Henry Knolhoff, who was the owner of forty acres of land in Clinton county, gave one Osborne an oil and gas lease thereon, herein…