TRUE OIL COMPANY v. GIBSON

No. 3210.

392 P.2d 795 (1964)

TRUE OIL COMPANY, a co-partnership, Sinclair Oil & Gas Company, a corporation, and Shell Oil Company, a corporation, Appellants (Plaintiffs below), v. W. R. GIBSON, Jr., Rex H. Baker, Thomas G. Dorough, H. P. Macauley, W. James Saul, Floyd E. Cook, and Myrtle Cook, Appellees (Defendants below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

June 9, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. J. Wehrli and Houston G. Williams, Casper, for appellants.

William H. Brown and Morris R. Massey, of Brown, Healy, Drew Apostolos & Barton Casper, for appellees.

Before PARKER, C.J., and HARNSBERGER, GRAY, and McINTYRE, JJ.


Mr. Justice McINTYRE delivered the opinion of the court.

Suit was filed in the District Court of Campbell County by True Oil Company for a declaratory judgment determining whether a certain oil and gas lease was valid and subsisting and whether the complainant was entitled to proceed, as a lessee, with drilling and development operations. The defendants were owners of the mineral rights in the land involved. Sinclair Oil & Gas Company and Shell Oil Company claimed...

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