Kirk v. HGP Corporation, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, C. J.:

This action was commenced by the appellees, Sennett Kirk, Jr. and H. B. Doering, as landowners, against an oil and gas lessee corporation, H. G. P. Corporation, Inc. for the cancellation of an oil and gas lease and for statutory and common-law damages arising from the cancellation, including misfeasance in plugging certain oil and gas wells and the failure to plug certain water injection wells on said leases.

The facts are undisputed. The appellant, Claude D. Beets, was one of the incorporators of the defendant corporation in September,…