Clear Creek Oil & Gas Co. v. Bushmaier

The Clear Creek Oil & Gas Company prosecutes this appeal to reverse a decree against it in favor of W. S. Bushmaier and wife for an accounting under a gas lease.

It appears from the record that the Clear Creek Oil & Gas Company is a public service corporation furnishing natural gas mainly to industrial consumers in the cities of Van Burén and Fort Smith, Arkansas. W. S. Bushmaier and his wife own a tract of land containing 106 acres in Crawford County, Arkansas. In February, 1919, by á contract in writing, they leased said tract of land to the Clear Creek Oil & Gas Company to be explored for…