State v. Pennzoil Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the lease in issue’s clear terms intended that royalty payments be made only after production from the lease—i.e. physical extraction of gas from the land and its sale— occurred
• ambiguities in written contracts are construed most strictly against the drafter
• ambiguities in written contracts are construed most strictly against the drafter

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