Skelly Oil Company v. AM Fruh Company

BURKE, Chief Justice.

Skelly Oil Company, operator under oil and gas leases of the Southeast Quarter (SE%) of Section Twenty-seven (27), Township One Hundred Fifty-two (152) North, Range Ninety-six (96) West, McKenzie County, North Dakota, brought this action to resolve conflicting claims to the royalty it was required to pay under its leases. The suit is one for a declaratory judgment.

Judgment was entered in the case decreeing that Carrie Ceynar Oltesvig was the owner of an undivided one-half interest in and to the oil and gas and other minerals under the above described land and that such…