Court Opinion

ID: 9560201
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 17:45:13.120032+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:12:21.903425
License: Public Domain

BACON, Judge,
specially concurring.
As I read Davis Oil Co. v. Cloud, 57 Okla.B.J. 2885 (Nov. 18, 1986), I must concur in the result reached in the present case. However, the legislature may want to reexamine the Surface Damages Act, 52 O.S.Supp.1986 §§ 318.2 through 318.9. I say this because it seems ludicrous to me to make a surface owner and a lessee attempt to agree on an amount of damage, if any, before the damage is even done. I also have reservations about the constitutionality of the Act as an infringement on a party’s right to contract.