Portwood v. Buckalew

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• executive improperly negotiated and entered into lease whereby executive, as surface owner, received extravagant overriding royalty interest which she classified as surface damages, thereby defeating right of non-executive mineral interest owners to participate
• executive improperly negotiated and entered into lease whereby executive, as surface owner, received extravagant overriding royalty interest which she classified as surface damages, thereby defeating right of non-executive mineral interest owners to participate
• “[TJhere is an implied covenant arising from the partition deed that the appellant would use the utmost fair dealing in executing oil and gas leases so as to protect the interest of the appellee’s children.”
• “[T]here is an implied covenant arising from the partition deed that the appellant would use the utmost fair dealing in executing oil and gas leases so as to protect the interest of the appellee’s children.”
• “[T]here is an implied covenant arising from the partition deed that the appellant would use the utmost fair dealing in executing oil and gas leases so as to protect the interest of the appellee’s children.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).