Samano v. Sun Oil Co.

POPE, Justice.

George Samano and others (hereafter called Samano), as lessors of an oil and gas lease, sued Sun Oil Company and Tanya Oil Company (hereafter called Sun), as lessees, for a declaratory judgment that the lease had expired; because, during the secondary term, there was neither production nor any drilling or reworking operations for a continuous period of seventy-three days. The question presented by the case is whether a sixty-day limitation period for drilling or reworking operations was applicable to the secondary term of the lease. The trial court granted lessor, Samano, a…