DIXON v. ANADARKO PRODUCTION COMPANY

No. 43297.

505 P.2d 1394 (1972)

John R. DIXON and Irma Dixon, Appellants, v. ANADARKO PRODUCTION COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing February 12, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryan L. Wright, of Dale, Belanger & Wright, Guymon, for appellants.

C. Harold Thweatt, of Crowe, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford, Johnson & Burdick, Oklahoma City, and Irley Bonnette, General Atty., Anadarko Production Company, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellee.


JACKSON, Justice.

This is an action in equity by Mr. and Mrs. Dixon to cancel the deeper horizons of an oil and gas lease for an alleged failure of the lessee, Anadarko Production Company, to comply with the implied covenant to fully develop. Plaintiffs did not allege that a well if drilled to the deeper horizon would produce enough oil to repay the cost of drilling, equipping, and operating the well. Plaintiffs were proceeding...

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