Occidental Permian Ltd. v. Helen Jones Foundation

How courts have described this case

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• “[E]xtrinsic evidence is inadmissible to contradict or vary the meaning of the explicit language of the parties’ written agreement.”
• extrinsic evidence inadmissible to “contradict or vary the meaning of the explicit language”
• “Under the royalty owners' theory, [Defendant] breached its duty to reasonably market by failing to modify the terms of the gas sales contracts precisely because it, acting alone, has the ability to do so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).