Lario Oil and Gas Company v. EOG Resources, Inc.

CROTHERS, Justice.

[¶ 1] EOG Resources, Inc., appeals a district court judgment granting Lario Oil & Gas Co.’s motion for summary judgment and quieting title of an oil and gas leasehold estate in Lario’s favor. We reverse *51and remand, concluding the district court erred by deciding EOG did not lease the rights to the oil and gas interests.

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[¶ 2] In 2004, several landowners executed oil and gas leases covering their interests in land adjacent to White Lake in Mountrail County, North Dakota, to Con-tex Energy Company. Contex assigned the leases to EOG. At the time, White Lake apparently was…