Wacker Oil, Inc. v. LoneTree Energy, Inc.

LEVINE, Justice.

LoneTree Energy, Inc. and Nodana Petroleum Corporation appeal from a district court summary judgment quieting title in Wacker Oil Inc., to the leasehold estate in oil and gas on certain land in Bottineau County. We affirm.

Ellen and Edwin Koehler were divorced in California in 1977. Ellen and Edwin entered into a property settlement agreement providing, in part, that each was to receive one-half of the mineral rights in certain real estate in Bottineau County in North Dakota. The property agreement was incorporated into the California divorce decree, which also ordered the…