Nonamaker v. Amos

Citations

• 73 Ohio St. (N.S.) 163

Syllabus

<p>Oil lease providing for payment of royalty in oil by lessee to lessor — Royalty may be increased or decreased by parol agreement, when.</p> <p>Where an oil lease provides, that in consideration of the grant therein made, the lessees will yield and pay to the lessor as royalty, a certain share of “the oil produced and saved from the premises,” the parties to the lease may subsequently, for a consideration, increase or decrease the royalty by parol agreement, and such agreement is not within the statute of frauds.</p>