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LIGHTCAP v. MOBIL OIL CORPORATION

No. 47,991

221 Kan. 448 (1977)

562 P.2d 1

HARRY LIGHTCAP and LELA LIGHTCAP, W.I. CUTTER, FERN ELLEN MAUPIN, RICHARD M. STEWART, HAROLD PARKER and FANNIE M. FLOWER, Appellees, v. MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, formerly known as SOCONY MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, INC., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed March 5, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark H. Adams and Richard Jones, of Wichita, argued the cause, and John E. Robertson, of Denver, Colorado, and Jack D. Sage, of Wichita, were with them on the briefs for the appellant.

Gerrit H. Wormhoudt, of Wichita, argued the cause, and Dale M. Stucky and John T. Conlee, of Wichita, were with him on the brief for the appellees.

The following opinion was prepared by FOTH, C., prior to his becoming a member of the Court of Appeals, and is now ordered filed as the opinion of the court:

In these six cases, consolidated for trial, the plaintiff-appellees are royalty owners and lessors under various natural gas leases in the Hugoton field now held by the defendant-appellant, Mobil Oil Corporation, as lessee. We are told that there are nearly three hundred similar cases pending in the district...

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