140 Ind. App. 295 - Barrett v. Dorr’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2020
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pokraka v. Lummus Co. · Waggoner Estate v. Sigler Oil Co. · HINDS, ETC. v. McNAIR · Miller, Etc. v. Ortman, Etc. · Watson v. Rochmill
Most-quoted passages
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““The appellants urge here that the ap-pellees, by their failure to pump the well, were guilty of abandonment and that the lease became void; while the appellees contend that no intention to abandon was shown, and that the failure to pump the well was due to conditions beyond their control. From the evidence here, it might be said that the appellees were delinquent or guilty of mismanagement. However, with all their shortcomings, the lessees did produce oil, they did hire a new operator, they did install a new motor and they did increase production. The trial court decided that the steps taken indicated that the appellees did not intend to abandon the property. The appellants allege that failure to produce oil for the period set out in the complaint rendered the lease void. The trial court found that such allegations had not been sustained and as there was evidence to support the same, we are bound by such findings. Where there is evidence to sustain such findings of fact, this court will accept them as stated by the trial court. The trial court was in a position to hear the witnesses and to make a fair determination of the circumstances surrounding this matter. The evidence was conflicting and the court rendered its decision after considering the evidence submitted. We cannot say that the decision was contrary to law when such conflict in the evidence existed. It is only where the evidence is not in conflict and a decision is reached that reasonable minds or men would not hav”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is agreed that this lease shall remain in force for a term of one year from this date, and as long thereafter as oil, gas, casing-head gasoline or any of them is being produced from said lease premises, or operations for drilling are continued as hereafter provided, or operations are continued for the injection of gas in a storage reservoir, water, brine, and any other fluids into subsurface strata.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“clause. The drilling and production of oil in the primary term created a determinable fee which is limited by the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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