Vickers v. Vining

WILLIAMS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court cancelling an oil and gas lease, or, in the alternative, requiring defendants below, owners of the working interest in the lease, to drill an additional well on the leased property, or, to pay plaintiffs, owners of all the surface and mineral interest therein, offset royalties. On appeal, the parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

In 1954 and 1955, plaintiffs executed oil and gas leases covering the Southeast Quarter of Section 20, Township 14 North, Range 8 East, Creek County, Oklahoma, to one of…