RORKE v. SAVOY ENERGY, LP

Docket No. 239747.

677 N.W.2d 45 (2003)

260 Mich. App. 251

John A. RORKE and Pamela G. Rorke, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SAVOY ENERGY, LP, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided December 30, 2003, at 9:10 a.m.

Released for Publication March 19, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosi Law Offices, P.C. (by Philip R. Rosi and Gary Allen Gardner) (Jo Ann M. Carlson, of counsel), Traverse City, Lake Leelanau, for the plaintiffs.

Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey, PLC (by James R. Peterson and D. Andrew Portinga), Grand Rapids, for the defendant.

Before: METER, P.J., and SAAD and SCHUETTE, JJ.


METER, J.

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from the circuit court's order granting defendant's motion for summary disposition. We affirm.

Plaintiffs owned the surface rights to a piece of property, while defendant owned the oil, gas, and mineral rights. Defendant reopened a capped oil well on plaintiffs' property and used it to drill underneath and beyond plaintiffs' land. Plaintiffs objected to the reopening of the...

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