Southern Pacific Land Co. v. Westlake Farms, Inc.
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BROWN (G. A.), P. J.
This proceeding arises out of a controversy among the parties with regard to the interpretation of an oil and gas lease and related disputes. The lease was entered into on September 15, 1980, between West-lake Farms, Inc., Ceil W. Howe and Edwin H. Howe, Jr., as lessors, and American Quasar Petroleum Co. of New Mexico as lessee. American Quasar subsequently assigned the lease to Southern Pacific Land Company. The central dispute is over whether the lease expired.
Under the lease, the primary term expired September 15, 1983. The “habendum” clause of the lease states…
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