Sun Operating Ltd. Partnership v. Holt

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that oil and gas lease required production to resume within sixty days of cessation rather than within a reasonable time because the lease provided that it terminated if production ceased for more than sixty consecutive days
• stating that an appellate court is “not at liberty to rewrite the contract or interpret it in a manner which the parties never intended”
• holding that oil and gas lease required production to resume within sixty days of cessation rather than within a reasonable time because the lease provided that it terminated if production ceased for more than sixty consecutive days
• stating that 24 an appellate court is ―not at liberty to rewrite the contract or interpret it in a manner which the parties never intended‖
• noting that the clause’s “scope and application, for the most part, is utterly dependent upon the terms of the contract in which it appears”
• stating that an appellate court is “not at liberty to rewrite the contract or interpret it in a manner which the parties never intended”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).