Southern Oil Corp. v. Waggoner
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas; Robert T. Ervin, Judge. Action at law by R. M. Waggoner against the Southern Oil Corporation. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge.
R. M. Waggoner was the owner of certain oil lands in Wichita county, Tex. He had leased these lands to several lessees on a royalty of one-eighth of the oil produced. The leases, provided that said royalty should be delivered to the credit of lessor in the pipe line to which he may connect his wells. These lessees thereafter made contracts for the delivery of certain quantities of oil to the Southern Oil Corporation (hereinafter styled defendant). The oil so delivered included the one-eighth part of production reserved as a royalty to said lessor, Waggoner. The evidence…
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