Trimble v. Hope Natural Gas Co.

Maxwell, Judge:

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Barbour County imposing certain requirements on the lessee in an oil and gas lease.

The suit is prosecuted by Hoffman Trimble and Willa B. Trimble, his wife, plaintiffs, against the Hope Natural Gas Company, defendant, and pertains to the gas pro-' duetion from a 156-acre tract of land in Barbour County, owned by Hoffman Trimble and operated for gas by the defendant. The production of gas is being carried on under an oil and gas lease which was executed by the Trimbles in 1925 to John C. Chidester, who assigned the same to…