Andrus v. Berkshire Power Co.

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• observing that “equity will not enforce a forfeiture unless upon grounds of abandonment by the lessee, or upon circumstances of fraud or great hardship”
• “[T]here is always implied in every oil and gas lease a covenant to drill the number of wells reasonably necessary to develop the property and prevent drainage by operation on adjoining lands.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).