Leck v. Continental Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that lessors’ “action for damages for the lessee’s alleged breach of an implied covenant to protect from drainage [was] a private action arising from their contract and [did] not involve the correlative rights of the ‘public’”
• stating that “allegations ... in the nature of intrinsic fraud” must be decided in forum where fraud occurred
• all mining leases contain the lessee's implied promise to develop the leasehold as a prudent operator
• “Relief from intrinsic fraud must be made by direct attack in the same case in which the fraud was committed.”
• noting misrepresentation made at adversarial hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).