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GILBERT v. SMEDLEY

No. 18390.

612 S.W.2d 270 (1981)

A. B. GILBERT and Helen Gilbert, Appellant, v. Gordon L. SMEDLEY, Jr., Franke Basin Exploration Company, a Corporation, and Henry L. Franke, Individually, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied March 12, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. J. Varnell, Jr., Mineral Wells, Cantey, Hanger, Gooch, Munn & Collins, and Stephen L. Tatum and S. G. Johndroe, III, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Creighton & Cleveland, and Tom Creighton and David Cleveland, Mineral Wells, Nat J. Harben, Fort Worth, for appellee.

OPINION

HUGHES, Justice.

A. B. and Helen Gilbert, lessors, have appealed the declaratory judgment rendered by the trial court which extended the primary term of an oil and gas lease (under a force majeure clause) to a period of six months beyond the date said judgment became final. The effect of this ruling would give Smedley Petroleum Resources Corporation the said six months to develope the lessors' entire realty for oil and gas production and, under a...

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