Danciger Oil & Refining Co. v. Burroughs’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.2d 855 · 1935
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1993
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on James Boyce's Executors v. Felix Grundy · United States v. Noble · Burns v. . McCormick · Williams v. Morris · Purcell v. Miner
Most-quoted passages
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““Both parties approach the contract as one exclusively for services on plaintiff’s part, and argue the case upon that assumption. Plaintiff relies upon King v. Gants, supra, and the trial court apparently predicated its decision upon that case. Defendants concede that the principle decided in that case applies here, but insist that the case was overruled by Hall v. Haer, supra, and urge that we must follow the last expression from the supreme court of the state. It is unnecessary to consider whether there is conflict between the two cases, and, if so, which applies here, because we do not share the view that the contract now under consideration was one exclusively for services on plaintiff’s part. It overlooks an important fact. The contract consisted of two integral parts on each side. In addition to the services rendered in securing leases from other owners, plaintiff was required to execute a lease upon his own property constituting virtually one-fourth of the entire area. Under the authorities previously cited, that lease constituted a conveyance of an interest in real estate. In addition to paying the S500 in cash, defendant Danciger Oil and Refining Company was required to convey to plaintiff an overriding royalty. That constituted a conveyance of an interest in land because it is the general rule that an assignment of an overriding royalty carries an interest in the real estate. (United States v. Noble, 237 U. S. 74 , 35 S. Ct. 532 , 59 L. Ed. 844 ; Homestake Explorati”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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