BP America Production Co. v. Patterson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that royalty owners’ claims for underpayment of natural gas royalties accrued “on the date the royalties actually become due”
• holding that rule favoring longer, rather than shorter, of two arguably applicable statutes of limitation, like analogous rules of choice applicable to statutes or contractual provisions generally, is a rule of last resort
• holding that rule favoring longer, rather than shorter, of two arguably applicable statutes of limitation, like analogous rules of choice applicable to statutes or contractual provisions generally, is a rule of last resort
• demonstrating direct correspondence between accrual provision and limitations period designated for liquidated debt, as distinguished from accrual provision and limitations period designated for all other contracts
• noting the parties’ agreement that C.R.S. 13-80-103.5(1)(a)’s six-year statute of limitation applied to a claim for unpaid royalties due under a natural-gas lease
• “[A] provision existing as part of a comprehensive statutory scheme must be understood, when possible, to harmonize the whole.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).