Shaffer Oil & Refining Co. v. Tippett Pipeline Co.

Opinion by

RAY, C.

In 1912 C. B. Shaffer owned oil and gas leases covering approximately 50,000 acres in Creek, Payne and Lincoln counties, on one of which leases a gas well of approximately 40,000,000 cubic feet daily production had been developed. Having no market for the gas Shaffer entered into a written contract with W. J. Rowland, by the terms of which Rowland agreed to purchase the gas produced at the particular well and from any and all other wells thereafter to be developed on any of the leases then owned by Shaffer, or thereafter acquired by him, within the three counties. By the…