SINCLAIR OIL & GAS COMPANY v. BISHOP

No. 40585.

441 P.2d 436 (1967)

SINCLAIR OIL & GAS COMPANY, a corporation, Woods Petroleum Corporation, a corporation, Republic Natural Gas Company, a corporation, Harper Oil Company, a corporation, Walter J. Tuohy, Bernard Shanker and A.D. Freshour, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Troy O. BISHOP, Virginia L. Bishop and H.E. Parrott, Individually, and as Executor of the Estate of Laura Parrott, Deceased, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Amended May 6, 1968.

Rehearing Denied May 7, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.A. Davidson, Ted D. Foster, Jr., Tulsa, for Sinclair Oil & Gas Co.

Paul Brown, Robert W. Richards, T. Murray Robinson, Oklahoma City, for plaintiffs in error.

Joseph A. Young, Chandler, and Young, Young & Young, by Glenn A. Young, Sapulpa, for defendants in error.


BERRY, Justice.

This action was brought by the lessors to cancel lessees' oil and gas lease for failure to prudently develop, operate, and produce the same, in violation of implied covenants and express terms of an oil and gas lease.

The lease, or leases, involved cover tract herein identified as the Bishop tract or lease. This lease was acquired originally from the lessors by Sinclair Oil and Gas Company, which in...

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