Baker v. Magnum Hunter Production, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUSTICE ABRAMSON

Two sets of Harlan County landowners, the Bakers1 and certain heirs (together with their spouses) of Chester Jackson (the “Jackson heirs”)2 jointly brought suit in Harlan Circuit Court seeking, among other things, damages'and a declaration of their rights under oil and gas leases executed in 2004 with Daugherty Petroleum, Inc. Daugherty is Appellee Magnum *590Hunter Production, Inc.’s (“MHP’s”) predecessor. The landowner-lessors sought a declaration to the effect that the .lessee production companies had miscalculated and underpaid- royalties due under the…