Berryman v. Sinclair Prairie Oil Co.

HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

This was an action instituted in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas in the nature of a quiet title suit to remove the cloud of an oil and gas lease alleged to have been forfeited from plaintiffs’ land located in Ellis County, Oklahoma, and for damages claimed to have resulted from permitting the alleged void lease to have remained of record. Trial was had to the court. At the conclusion of plaintiffs’ evidence, the court sustained a motion by defendant for judgment in its favor. Such a judgment was entered and this appeal challenges the…