McClure v. Watson

District Judge GUTHRIE

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case arises on an appeal by the defendants below, appellants here, from the granting of a summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs below, the appellees here. These parties will be hereinafter referred to as they appeared in the original proceeding.

Plaintiffs filed an action to quiet title to certain lands in Natrona County on March 16, 1970. Thereafter the defendants filed an answer therein asserting an ownership and claim to the oil and gas upon said premises by virtue of and pursuant to an oil and gas lease dated March 1,…