Fritsche v. Turner

Plaintiff appeals because the district court refused to cancel an oil and gas lease in which he was lessor and refused to set aside a so-called “royalty deed” made by him.

Plaintiff is the owner of 2,600 acres of land in Frontier county. On September 15, 1932, John H. Turner and others were seeking to acquire a large block of leases of land in that neighborhood with the idea of prospecting for oil and gas. On the day named, plaintiff leased his land for five years, or so long as gas or oil was produced, to John H. Turner, Trustee, one of defendants. Plaintiff was to receive one-eighth of the…