Adcock v. Bennett

Opinion by

RAT, C.

This suit involves the ownership of one-fourth of the royalty interest of a producing oil and gas mining lease. The essential facts are these: There was an oil and gas lease on the allotment of Millie Pettit. She executed a top lease to another party. She and the top lessee joined in a suit to cancel the first lease upon the grounds that the lessee had not complied. with its terms. As compensation to her attorneys for conducting the litigation she agreed to give them a one-fourth interest in and to the royalty rights. The attorneys indorsed upon the petition when filed, the…