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LAYTON v. PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION

No. 40098.

383 P.2d 624 (1963)

Howard F. LAYTON, Dorothy Mae Layton and Oil Incorporated, a corporation, Plaintiffs in Error, v. PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION, a corporation, Calvert Petroleum Company, a corporation, Gulf Oil Corporation, a corporation, and King Stevenson Oil Company, Inc., a corporation, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied July 16, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murphy & Evans, Shutler, Shutler & Baker, Kingfisher, for plaintiffs in error.

Monnet, Hayes, Bullis, Grubb & Thompson, Norton Standeven, Richard R. Linn, Oklahoma City, for defendants in error.

JOHNSON, Justice.

The plaintiffs in error, hereafter referred to as plaintiffs, are the owners of 273 acres of land in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. On June 1, 1954, they executed an oil and gas lease to one W.A. Burton, Jr. for a primary term of five years. This land is located in a gas spacing unit of 640 acres created by the Corporation Commission. No well has ever been drilled upon the land of plaintiffs. This suit was...

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