Fox v. Thoreson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• referring to gas well constructed on real property premises as “improvements”
• special limitation must be “clear and precise and so unequivocal in nature that it can reasonably be given no other meaning”
• “Interpretation of a written instrument is always a quest for the intention of the parties to it.”
• “language used by the parties should be given its plain grammatical meaning unless it definitely appears that the intention of the parties would thereby be defeated”
• “A ‘primary term’ is . . . the period, typically five or ten years, during which a lease may be kept alive by a lessee by virtue of drilling operations or the payment of rentals, even though there is no production in paying quantities.”
• “A ‘primary term’ is . . . the period, typically five or ten years, during which a lease may be kept alive by a lessee by virtue of drilling operations or the payment of rentals, even though there is no production in paying quantities.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).