Duffield v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. “We think there can be no question that what he did upon that day was a commencement of operations within the meaning of this contract. On general principles we would say this, because the commencement of operations upon the land for the development of oil or gas, if done honestly and bona fide, with the intention of developing, may consist of a trivial and insignificant matter ... [a]ny act, the performance of which has a tendency to produce the desired result, is a commencement of operations.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Henry v. Chesapeake Appalachia, L.L.C.