Nordan-Lawton Oil & Gas Corp. v. Miller

RULING ON MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL

BEN C. DAWKINS, JR., Chief Judge.

Following trial of this case, and after extensive briefing, plaintiff, the lessee-operator of a mineral lease covering some 4870 acres of lands owned by defendants-landowners, obtained a judgment recognizing the validity of that lease in an action involving the landowners’ demand for cancellation. Landowners now urge that the Court erred in failing to cancel the lease, and pray that a new trial be granted.

First, landowners contend that we erred in holding that the “Miller Lease” did not set forth what constitutes a “market” for…