Duquesne Natural Gas Co. v. Fefolt

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This appeal is from the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County, sitting in equity, in an interpleader, by which it was determined that title to certain oil and gas was reserved to William Marlett, Jr., and Euth Marlett, his wife, as an estate in land.

The issue, so determined, was whether “. . . reserving however, to first party, the equal one-eighth (%th) part of all oil produced and saved from said premises, to be. delivered in the pipe line to the credit of the first party, free of charge . . .” and whether the “consideration in full to the grantor…