United States Seventh Circuit

Under Indiana law, an oil and gas lessor retains the rights to the use of the surface of the land without interfering with the lessee's operations, so an express right-to-remove clause does not give a lessor the right to remove a lessee's oil wells from its property.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/19/2001
• Decided 03/15/2001
• Published 03/15/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Theodore Lockyear,Lockyear & Kornblum, Evansville, IN, George W. Woodcock (argued), Woodcock, Kline & Kaid, Mt. Carmel, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• G. Daniel Kelley (argued), Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.