Legal Opinion
Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Co. v. Lang & Sons Inc.
Montana Supreme Court
Decided August 17, 2011No. DA 10-0406PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
¶1 Lang and Sons, Incorporated (Lang) owns and operates a cattle ranch in Fallon County. Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Company (Burlington) leases the rights to oil and gas beneath Lang’s surface estate. Lang appeals from the findings of fact, conclusions of law, and order of the Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Fallon County, determining that Burlington had no obligation to compensate separately Lang for injecting wastewater into pore space beneath a well on Lang’s property. We affirm.
¶2 We restate the issues on appeal as follows:
¶3 Did the District Court correctly conclude that…
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