Cali-Ken Petroleum Co. v. Slaven

KOCH, Judge.

OPINION

This appeal involves the interpretation of an oil and gas lease. After the lessors insisted that the lease had terminated for failure to tender timely shut-in royalty payments, the assignee of the lease brought suit in the Chancery Court for Fentress County seeking to gain entry to the leased property and for a declaration concerning the continuing validity of the lease. The trial court, sitting without a jury, held that the lease was still in effect. The lessors have appealed. We concur with the trial court’s construction of the lease and, therefore, affirm the judgment.

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