WARM SPRINGS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY v. W.J. McAULAY

No. 9148.

576 P.2d 1120 (1978)

WARM SPRINGS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, a Nevada Corporation, Appellant, v. W.J. McAULAY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

April 7, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hibbs & Newton, and Margo D. Piscevich, Reno, for appellant.

Vargas, Bartlett & Dixon, and Frederic R. Starich, Reno, for respondent.


OPINION

GUNDERSON, Justice:

Warm Springs Development Company here appeals from a judgment declaring the express terms of a mineral lease enforceable, urging that an implied covenant should be read into the lease, to contradict its explicit provisions. We disagree.

On November 18, 1962, Henry Houck entered into a heat, fluid, and mineral lease with respondent, W.J. McAulay, for 80 acres in Humboldt County. The lease was for twenty years (until November...

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