Pennsylvania landowners cannot deny the validity of an oil and gas lease upon discovering that they did not have full rights to the property at the time the lease was conveyed, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.
In a unanimous decision in Shedden v. Anadarko E&P, the justices found that the doctrine of estoppel by deed does not require detrimental reliance by a party receiving oil and gas rights.
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