Bohrer v. Ramsey Petroleum Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This is a controversy between the lessors and the lessee of an ordinary oil lease as to the amount of the royalty due thereunder to the lessors, where the lease is subsequently modified by a city ordinance limiting the number of oil wells to one in a block and requiring.the payment of certain royalties to all the other lot owners in the block.' The plaintiffs claim the lessee should stand a share of the loss sustained by paying royalty to other lot owners in the block rather than the lessors to stand all of it.

*782The plaintiffs herein own an…