[Download] "Dixon v. Anadarko Production Company" by Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Dixon v. Anadarko Production Company
- Author : Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma
- Release Date : January 26, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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1 This is an action in equity by Mr. and Mrs. Dixon to cancel the deeper horizons of an oil and gas lease for an alleged failure of the lessee, Anadarko Production Company, to comply with the implied covenant to fully develop. Plaintiffs did not allege that a well if drilled to the deeper horizon would produce enough oil to repay the cost of drilling, equipping, and operating the well. Plaintiffs were proceeding upon the theory that "it is not necessary to allege or prove the `prudent operator rule or that a well drilled on the tract would produce in commercial quantities, when there has been a lapse of an unreasonable period of time during which no production or drilling activity had been commenced." They rely upon Crocker v. Humble Oil & Refining Company, Okl., 419 P.2d 265; Doss Oil Royalty Co. v. Texas Co., 192 Okl. 359, 137 P.2d 934; Skelly Oil Co. v. Boles, 193 Okl. 308, 142 P.2d 969, and Wolfson Oil Co. v. Gill, Okl., 309 P.2d 282.