Wilson v. Texas Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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10 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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1. “The lease did not provide nor contemplate that in the event of an assignment of ■ one-half of the lease the lessors should be entitled to receive $160 rental [the total amount of the specified rental] from the lessee and an additional $80 rental [one-half of the delay rental] from the assign-ee. Nor did it provide or contemplate that lessors were to receive in addition to one well an extra rental payment . . Let us pursue the problem a step further. Assuming the 160-acre lease was divided into ten tracts of 16 acres each, and assignments of nine of such tracts were made, then on plaintiff’s theory even though the one required well was drilled by the lessee, the nine assignees would be required to drill nine additional wells in the first year or would be required to pay $144 in rentals. In our judgment such a result was not intended by the contract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gulf Oil Corp. v. Prevost