Roy v. Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Co.

HIGGINS, Justice.

The lessor instituted this action to have forfeited and cancelled from the public records an oil and gas lease on the ground that the lessee and sublessee refused to pay the royalties alleged to be due him in accordance with the terms of the lease. In the alternative, the plaintiff asked for an accounting covering the alleged balance of the royalties said to be due under the lease from the operation of four gas wells by the lessee and two oil wells by the sub-lessee on the premises. The defendants denied that the plaintiff was- entitled to the claimed additional royalties…