Reade v. Brooks

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The judgment from which these appeals were taken adjudicated controversies arising out of a coal mining lease of coal lands in Pope County, Arkansas, which was entered into on June 1, 1943, between William Brooks and Fannie E. Brooks, his wife, of Russellville, Arkansas, as lessors, and Charles H. Reade of Jersey City, New Jersey, as lessee. The term of the lease was fifteen years and it called for $1 per ton royalty on coal extracted and a minimum royalty of $400 per month payable on the tenth of every month beginning on August 1, 1943. It contained the usual and…