Thank you for the reply Jason! If I remember correctly, my mother made sure she got copies of my grandfathers original lease agreement. We also went to our local courthouse and got copies of his will, fiduciary, and appraisment. I believe we had to provide that information to the Doddridge county courthouse in order to set the new record straight. I remember getting a few different things notarized from both courthouses.
And I hope we didn’t sign a ratification of the old lease agreement. I do not recall doing it, but I remember seeing a map that had the two old wells on it, and asking a question about them. Someone informed me they were shut in, but I cannot remember who that was.
As far as I can tell, there is no language in the lease I signed saying that. But I’ll admit, most of the wording used in the lease agreement is almost like a foreign language to me, Haha.
Do you know if a lease such as mine, a pooling clause, would be expired by now? We signed the lease nearly 6 years ago now. I can’t find anything in what I signed that has a lease expiration date on it.