Baker v. Collins

This is an action to cancel an oil and gas lease on the ground that the lease was not sufficiently developed. Defendants, Richard C. Collins and his assignees appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Clark County in favor of the plaintiffs-lessors cancelling the lease as to the whole 210-acre leased tract except one 20-acre location upon which a producing well is located.

The lease was dated August 9, 1941, and was for a primary term of 5 years and as long thereafter as oil or gas was produced therefrom. On the last day of the primary term the original lessors executed a 60-day extension…