Hall Ponderosa, LLC v. Petrohawk Properties, L.P.

KEATY, Judge.

Ijn this action for reformation of a lease, the managers of Hall Ponderosa, LLC, asserted that an entire section of property owned by Hall Ponderosa was inadvertently left out of the lease agreement. Claiming mutual error, Hall Ponde-rosa sought to have the lease reformed to include that section of property and sought payment for that section’s acreage at the rate of bonuses, $15,000 per acre.1 After a bench trial on the merits, the trial court found that Hall Ponderosa had met its burden of proving, by clear and convincing evidence, that mutual error existed. The trial court…