NYGAARD v. ROBINSON

Civ. No. 10445.

341 N.W.2d 349 (1983)

Peter A. NYGAARD, Jr., and Lynette Nygaard, husband and wife, and Peter A. Nygaard, Jr., and Albert Ley, Co-Trustees of the Joan K. Walter Mineral Trust and the Mary Pauline Nygaard Mineral Trust, Plaintiffs and Appellees, v. D.G. ROBINSON and W.R. Barth, Defendants, and HNG Oil Company, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

November 15, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight C. Eiken of Bjella, Neff, Rathert, Wahl & Eiken, Williston, for plaintiffs and appellees.

Jane Fleck Romanov of Fleck, Mather, Strutz & Mayer, Bismarck, for defendant and appellant.


VANDE WALLE, Justice.

Defendant HNG Oil Company ("HNG") appealed from the judgment of the district court, McKenzie County, determining that plaintiffs Peter Nygaard, Jr., Lynette Nygaard, and the trustees of two mineral trusts ("Nygaards") were entitled as lessors to terminate, pursuant to Section 47-16-36, three mineral leases assigned to HNG. The district court held that HNG was not a bona fide purchaser of the assigned leases and that the Nygaards could cancel...

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