Owens v. Superior Oil Co.

OPINION

WALTERS, Justice.

Plaintiff Owens and'others sued Superior to obtain release of an oil and gas lease held by Superior. Both parties moved for summary judgment; the trial judge denied Owens’s motion and granted Superior’s. Owens appeals, posing the following issue:

Does pooling leased land with other land, on which lessee began drilling operations within the sixty-day grace period allowed under a continuous operations clause, effectuate a valid extension of an oil and gas lease so long as production is maintained?

To answer this question, we review the facts. On April 8,1974, Donna G.…