Oil and Gas Rights Lease • Deadline That Voids Lease • Recording of Lease • Intent to Be Bound • Requirement to Make Bonus Payments
Chapman v. Chevron Appalachia, LLC, PICS Case No. 16-1096 (Pa. Super. Aug. 29, 2016) (memorandum) Shogan, J. (12 pages).
Lessee’s recording of an oil and gas lease was insufficient to demonstrate lessee’s intent to be bound to the terms of the lease, where the lease provided for specific conditions precedent for lessee’s approval of the lease, which explicitly did not include recording of the lease. Order of the trial court affirmed.
