Honolulu Oil Corp. v. Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co.

DOOLEY, District Judge.

The plaintiff Honolulu Oil Corporation has sued the defendant Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company for an adjudication adversely to the defendant’s claim of an overriding royalty interest originating in the assignment of a certain oil and gas lease, which terminated when a well begun by the assignee within, but completed after, the primary term, as extended by such operations, proved to be a dry hole, it being the defendant’s position that under the special language of said overriding royalty reservation same has now attached to new leases acquired by said assignee of the…