Hogg v. Sinclair Oil & Gas Co.

LESLIE. J.

This is a suit by the plaintiff, E. D. Hogg, to recover from the Sinclair Oil & Gas Company et al., under the oil royalty provision of an oil and gas lease, the one-eighth of the amount for which the appellee Sinclair Oil & Gas Company sold the casinghead gas from its wells. The defendants entered a general denial and special defenses! The trial was before the court without a jury, and a judgment was rendered in favor of the defendants, from which the plaintiff appeals. There are no findings of fact or conclusions of law in the record.

In the plaintiff’s petition he alleges that the…