PIERCE v. TEXAS PAC. OIL CO., INC.

No. 75-1759.

547 F.2d 519 (1976)

Sharon Kay PIERCE, Sole Trustee of the Earl Ray West Family Trust, Appellee, v. TEXAS PACIFIC OIL COMPANY, INC., a corporation, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Lovell McMillin, Fischl, Culp, McMillin, Kern & Cawley, Ardmore, Okl. (Thomas W. Lynch, Dallas, Tex., of counsel, with him on the brief), for appellant.

Charles E. Malson, Oklahoma City, Okl., for appellee.

Before HILL, SETH and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


SETH, Circuit Judge.

This is a diversity suit brought by or on behalf of the successor to the lessors of an oil and gas lease against the lessee. The question concerns the payment of royalty on gas under the lease provisions after the land had been included with other lands in a spacing unit established by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.

Both parties filed motions for summary judgment. The trial court granted plaintiff's motion.

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