Gardner v. South Penn Oil Co.

Miller, Judge:

The plaintiff, as lessor, seeks by his bill an accounting from defendant, as lessee, for one-half of the royalty oils produced from two wells which the bill alleges were drilled on the leased premises, not by defendant, but by The Walnut Creek Oil Company, without leave or license from plaintiff.

Plaintiff alleges that on June 6, 1906, he was the owner of the minerals within the leased lands, a tract of eighty acres, on which date he leased the same to defendant upon consideration that the lessee would deliver to his credit into the pipe line, one-eighth of all the oil produced…