Richardson v. Western Oil, Coal & Investment Co.

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Appellees sued appellant for a share of the royalties which they claim he was receiving from lessees on oil produced from certain lands in the Salt Creek, Wyoming, oil fields. Their claim is based on a written contract between one of the appellees, the Western Oil, Coal & Investment Company, hereinafter called Western Co., and appellant Richardson, of date January 10, 1921. The other appellee obtained from the Western Co. half of its interest in the contract.

The decree from which Richardson brought this appeal allowed appellees one-eighteenth of stated royalties on oil…