Sehle v. Producing Properties, Inc.

BROWN (Gerald), J.

The plaintiffs C. F. Sehle and his wife Helen N. Sehle appeal from a judgment of the trial court holding the defendant Producing Properties, Inc., had a right under an existing agreement to continue producing oil through three wells traversing the Sehle land.

By lease on December 29, 1954, the Sehles gave Tut 0. Lee the right to drill and produce oil from three of their lots in Huntington Beach. The duration clause provided the lease was to run for one year and so long thereafter as oil or gas or other hydrocarbon substances were produced from the property.

An addenda was…