Buffalo Pipeline Co. v. Bell

OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

The Court’s original opinion issued on February 21, 1985 is hereby withdrawn, and this opinion is substituted therefor.

UTTER, Justice.

This is a suit to cancel a surface lease. At trial, appellees claimed that the subject lease had been terminated when a lease renewal rental was tendered to appellees’ predecessor-in-title rather than to appellees, the owners of the property on the rental due date. The trial was held before the court, which entered its judgment declaring that the lease had terminated and further ordering that appellees recover the reasonable…