Court Opinion

ID: 9628220
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:13:12.727341+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:00.730560
License: Public Domain

Fatzer, J.,
concurring specially: Press of work makes impossible an extended concurring opinion. While the judgment of the lower court is here affirmed, the majority opinion bases the decision upon the ground that the plaintiffs did not remove the casing “within a reasonable time.” This is not a case involving the right to remove casing after an oil and gas lease is terminated by reason of cessation of production and where no written release is given the lessor by the lessee. While production had here ceased, the plaintiffs surrendered in writing all their right, title and interest in the lease without reserving tire right to remove the casing. The only right the plaintiffs had to remove the casing was by virtue of the reservation in the oil and gas lease. When they released, relinquished and surrendered to the defendants all their right, title and interest in the lease on December 2, 1957, without expressly reserving the right to remove the casing, their right to do so ceased to exist. In my opinion, the decision of the trial court in favor of the defendants was based upon a correct application of the law.