Howard Townsite Owners, Inc. v. Mills

The executrix of the estate of Wayne Mills herein appeals from an interlocutory judgment in which the trial court determined that a certain oil and gas lease was a valid and subsisting community oil lease and that plaintiffs continued to be entitled to the payment of oil royalties thereunder from the estate.

The following findings of the court are not disputed: On or about July 24, 1940, a group of property owners herein designated collectively as the Howard Townsite Owners, Inc. (sometimes hereinafter referred to as the Owners) entered into a community oil and gas lease covering approximately…