FRENCH v. TENNECO OIL CO.

No. 56312.

725 P.2d 275 (1986)

Hugh M. FRENCH and Helen French; Mary Ione Cutter and Paul Cutter; Barbara L. Tapp and Robert E. Tapp; Rosemary Ann Hood and Thomas C. Hood; Steven Ted Hood and Gina Hood; Marjorie K. Holler; Winifred M. Hawkins; Don Dale and Lovina B. Dale; Carl H. Cline and Faye Cline; Gladys individually and as attorney in fact for Sanders B. Cline; Joanne J. Twombley Park; David Long Cattle Co., Inc.; and Hubert K. Elrod, Appellees, v. TENNECO OIL COMPANY, a corporation; Mesa Petroleum Company, a corporation; Tema Oil Company, a general partnership, composed of Tenneco Oil Company, a corporation and Mesa Petroleum Company, a corporation; Multistate Oil Properties, N.V., a corporation; Russell T. Lund Oil Trust: Joseph Gruss Oil Corporation, a corporation, Herman Kahn; Dr. John A. Nilsen; Allan G. McCulloch; Lubrication Engineers, Inc., a corporation, and Trinity Resources, Inc., a corporation, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing September 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pat Long, Cultin, Morgan, Britain & White, Amarillo, Tex., David K. Petty, P.C., Guymon, for appellees.

H.B. Watson, Jr., Richard K. Books, Watson, McKenzie & Moricoli, Oklahoma City, for appellants.


HARGRAVE, Justice.

This appeal is brought by Tenneco Oil Company and other corporations and individuals as shown in the caption, from a summary judgment issued in the District Court of Cimarron County, Oklahoma, cancelling seven oil and gas leases covering Section 14, Township 2 North, Range 8 East of the Cimarron Meridian.

The leases in question were granted in 1974 or prior years to Shenandoah Oil Corporation and have subsequently been transferred to the...

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