LePorin v. State Exchange Bank

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

This was an action against the defendant for damages for alleged violation of an escrow agreement. Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the district court sustaining a demurrer to their evidence.

The facts were substantially as follows:

On March 17, 1919, Walter Grundy and C. J. Skirvin, with associates, were the owners of an undivided 19/4o interest in an oil and gas lease on certain land in Butler county, and on that day entered *77into what they termed an escrow agreement which provided for the payment of certain moneys from oil runs to the…