Frankfort Oil Company v. Abrams

This writ of error concerns the question as to whether damages awarded a landowner for use of his land under a lease by an oil company were excessive, as one side contends or were inadequate, as the other side urges. The parties appear in the same order as in the trial court, and they will hereinafter be referred to by name or as the plaintiff and defendant.

Frankfort Oil Company is a Texas corporation engaged in oil and gas exploration and production; it is authorized to do business in Colorado. As the holder of a mineral leasehold estate located in Kiowa County, Colorado, it initially. filed…