Cole v. Butler

The opinion of the court was delivered by

WHIST, J.:

The defendant appeals from an order sustaining a demurrer to his answer, and from the judgment entered against him for $100 damages and $50 attorney’s fee, in an action to cancel a gas lease. The Doughertys, in 1903, made a gas and oil lease to J. H. Butler for 20 years, which gave full rights to explore for gas and other mineral, to erect sufficient equipment to take care of any product, to lay a pipe line or remove the product by any reasonable method. It provided that gas would be furnished free of charge at well for residence located upon…