Pittsburgh & West Virginia Gas Co. v. Pentress Gas Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Monongalia County. Separate suits for injunction by the Pittsburgh & West 'Virginia Gas Company and others against-the Pentress Gas ’Company, the Chartiers Oil Company, and others. Decrees for plaintiffs, and defendant Chartiers Oil Company appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Ritz, Judge:
Plaintiffs are the successors in title to the lessee in two oil and gas leases executed by the owners of separate tracts of land lying in Monongalia county. These leases are indefinite in their term, and are what is commonly called “no term leases.” They provide for the drilling of a well within a certain time, or for the payment of a certain sum of money quarterly in lieu of drilling. Por a number of years the plaintiffs and their predecessors paid the commutation money in lieu of drilling and kept the leases alive in that way. At the end of one of the quarterly periods for which…
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