Salvaggio v. Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “leases’ express language includes no proximity requirement for the offset well,” and refusing to “imply such a restriction” into the leases
• acknowledging that we will not impose more stringent obligations unless the parties clearly intended to do so
• explaining that in construing an oil and gas contract, we “ascertain the true intentions of the parties as expressed in the writing,” beginning with the contract’s express language (citation omitted)
• interpreting the contract to ascertain its meaning before determining whether the party breached the contract
• declining to read any implied proximity requirement concerning an offset well into a lease provision
• considering “realities” of horizontal shale drilling as part of “facts and circumstances surrounding the contract’s execution” that “may inform” court’s construction of lease language

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