Lee v. Gulf Oil Exploration & Production Co.

SAND, Justice.

This is an attempted appeal in a quiet title action by the plaintiffs, Peter H. Lee, Robert P. Wegleitner, and Dale Tjelde, from an order for judgment which determined that an oil and gas lease had not terminated because of the purported failure to comply with an “unless” clause in the lease. We are confronted with the issue whether or not we have jurisdiction before we resolve the issues regarding the effect of the “unless” clause under the facts of this case.

On 21 August 1974 Evelyn Gould and Mildred Gould, both single women, jointly executed a ten-year term oil and gas lease…