Lab Oil Company v. Bentz

NYE, Justice.

This suit was one brought by the ap-pellees Ella L. Bentz, a widow, Francis L. Bentz and wife Faye Bentz, and Charles N. Bentz and wife Estelline Bentz, called hereinafter Bentz, seeking the cancellation and termination of an oil, gas and mineral lease and praying for removal of the cloud from the appellees’ title to the land by virtue of such lease, on the theory that after the expiration of the primary term, the lease terminated due to cessation of production or efforts to obtain production. The appellants, M. Liedeker, Sr., Paul A. Alford and Fred Bowman, individually and as…