Webb v. Graf

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammack

Reversing.

In 1914, J. W. Webb and Ms wife executed an oil and gas lease to a predecessor of the Kentucky-West Virginia Gas Company on a 425-acre tract of land. The appellants inherited the land from the original lessors. While all of the area is in one boundary, it is virtually cut in two by a 93-acre tract of land known as the Bright tract, on which there are three producing gas wells. Prior to 1936, three wells were drilled on the extreme southeasterly end of the Webb tract. There are producing gas wells surrounding the whole Webb boundary ranging from…