Thompson v. Thompson

VANDE WALLE, Justice.

Myrna E. Thompson appealed from a district court judgment declaring that Vernon and Helen Thompson own a salt-water-disposal well and are entitled to all payments associated with its use. We affirm.

On January 1, 1980, Vernon and Helen Thompson entered into a contract for deed for the sale of land to Eugene and Myrna Thompson. The contract for deed provided that the sellers “reserve and except all oil and gas.”

When the contract for deed was executed, there was located on the premises an abandoned oil and gas well being used for the disposal of salt water from wells on…