Somont Oil Co. v. a & G Drilling, Inc.

¶1 This is the third appeal in this case. It began in 1998 when Somont Oil Company, Inc. (Somont) filed suit to quiet its leasehold interest in twenty-eight oil and gas leases located in the Kevin/Sunburst field in Toole County. Somont alleged that its top leases were valid and enforceable to the exclusion of C-W’s leases on the same property because production had ceased. After the litigation commenced, C-W conceded Somont’s claim that production had ceased on twenty of the twenty-eight leases in question and released these twenty leases. However, it declined to release the other eight…