WOODHOUSE HUNTING CLUB, INC. v. HOYT

No. 327 MDA 2017.

183 A.3d 453 (2018)

2018 PA Super 78

WOODHOUSE HUNTING CLUB, INC., a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation, Plaintiff v. William HOYT, Mark Hoyt, Edward C. Hoyt, Theodore R. Hoyt, and George S. Hoyt, t/d/b/a the Firm of Hoyt Brothers and their unknown heirs, successors, and assigns, Defendants. Hoyt Royalty, LLC, Trustees of the Margaret E. Haight Trust; Karol Tarnowski; Thomas Pedder Bispham; Sydney Wynne Woodward; Gertrude Weber; John Wedel; Matt Wedel; Jay Wedel; Caroline Hoke Weber; Helen Hoyt Weber; Virginia Foote Haggerty; Nathan Clark Sweet; John Weber Sweet; and all other unknown heirs, successors and assigns of William Hoyt, Mark Hoyt, Edward C. Hoyt, Theodore R. Hoyt, and George S. Hoyt, individually, jointly, and/or Trading as Hoyt Brothers, Counterclaim Plaintiffs v. Woodhouse Hunting Club a/k/a Woodhouse Hunting Club, Inc. and Camp Woodhouse Hunting Club; SWN Production Company, LLC; and Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, f/k/a Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation of Delaware and Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation of West Virginia, and Woodhouse Holding Company, Counterclaim Defendants. Appeal of: Hoyt Royalty, LLC.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed March 29, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald L. Hicks, Jr. , Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Jeffrey J. Malak , Wilkes-Barre, for SWN Production Company, appellee.

Helen L. Gemmill , Harrisburg, for Woodhouse Hunting Club, appellee.

BEFORE: BOWES, J., OLSON, J., and RANSOM, J.


Appellant, Hoyt Royalty, LLC, appeals from the trial court's order of February 1, 2017, granting summary judgment in favor of Appellee, Woodhouse Hunting Club ("Woodhouse"). After careful review, we affirm.

We adopt the following statement of facts from three trial court opinions...

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