# Lease Issues
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease-issues/3517
**Category:** Oil and Gas Leasing Help
**Created:** [January 26, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease-issues/3517 "2017-01-26T17:21:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Jeremy\_J\_Gautreaux](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jeremy_J_Gautreaux)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease-issues/3517/1 "2017-01-26T17:21:21Z")
A scenario ongoing in Arapahoe County, Colorado for which I have questions:
John Doe executes a lease with Company A. Company A tells him to take the lease home, think about it, and if he wants to go ahead with it, to have the lease recorded.
Company B comes along and offers John Doe more money and royalty. Although he has already executed a lease with Company A and has not recorded it yet in Arapahoe County, he doesn’t tell Company B that he has already executed a lease with Company A. John Doe decides to tear up the executed lease with Company A and executes a lease with Company B.
Can John Doe do this legally or does Company A have a case? Not sure why Company A would let him take home the executed lease and record it himself, but they did.
I understand that Colorado is a notice state and not first to file. Am I correct with this assumption?
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### Author:  [@r\_w\_kennedy](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/r_w_kennedy)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease-issues/3517/2 "2017-01-26T21:16:20Z")
Leaving out some pertinent information. Did Company A execute the lease or only John Doe?
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### Author:  [@Jeremy\_J\_Gautreaux](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jeremy_J_Gautreaux)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease-issues/3517/3 "2017-01-26T21:20:05Z")
As I understand, only John Doe.
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### Author:  [@r\_w\_kennedy](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/r_w_kennedy)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease-issues/3517/4 "2017-01-26T23:15:54Z")
Unless company A has given John Doe some money or other compensation, then I don’t believe they have a case. If company A didn’t execute the lease, I don’t believe John Doe has so much as a promise from company A.
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### Author:  [@Jeremy\_J\_Gautreaux](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Jeremy_J_Gautreaux)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease-issues/3517/5 "2017-01-27T15:55:41Z")
Thank You
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 10:39pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease-issues/3517/6 "2018-08-14T22:39:34Z")