Loflin v. Ault

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Thiele, J.:

This was an action to quiet title to real estate, and from a judgment in favor of plaintiff the defendants appeal, the questions here presented all depending on whether an oil and gas lease, by reason of concurrent and supplemental contracts for its delivery and performance, was longer in effect.

Plaintiff owned 800 acres of land, and he and other landowners executed oil and gas leases to defendant Ault. The lease executed *341by plaintiff was dated March 5, 1935, was of usual form, and provided that if no well be commenced on or before March 5,…