VW FROST v. Sun Oil Co.(Delaware)

PEDEN, Justice.

Sun Oil Company sued Texaco and Vernon W. Frost and other intervenors (Frosts) for a declaration of rights under the parties’ water pressure maintenance agreements. Sun also sought to enjoin Texaco from ceasing to inject water into the Fig Ridge (Seabreeze) Oil Field in accordance with the parties’ earlier agreements. The trial court decided that two of the parties’ agreements were ambiguous and submitted two issues to a jury, which found that 1) upon termination of their 1974 agreement the parties mutually intended to revert to the rates of water injection that existed just…