Perry v. Nicor Exploration

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

Appellants, plaintiffs below, appeal from the chancellor’s refusal to cancel twenty-two (22) oil and gas leases in which appellees, defendants below, own the working interest and overriding royalty interest. We affirm.

On August 23, 1969, the McCarty A-#l gas well was completed. The well, subsequently renamed the McCarty B-#l gas well, is located in a 640 acre drilling unit in the Alma Field in Crawford County. Beginning in 1983, appellant Thomas Mueller obtained top leases on twenty-two leases covering approximately 200 acres of the 640 acre drilling unit. The…