Haby v. Stanolind Oil & Gas Co.

ATWELL, Chief Judge.

The Stanolind Oil & Gas Company secured a lease on certain lands in Reagan County, Texas,- for exploration and production of oil under three different tracts. Under the terms of the lease, the drilling of one tract would protect the lease on the other two tracts.

The question presented in this case is whether an oil and gas lease, without a “force majeure” clause, that has its well shut in by a conservation order by the Railroad Commission of Texas, and which does not produce for a period of time after the .expiration of the primary term of the lease terminate because of…