Boggess v. Milam

Kenna, Judge:

This chancery proceeding was brought in the Circuit Court of Jackson County by W. W. Boggess for the purpose of recovering his alleged proportionate interest in the net value of the entire production of oil and gas by the defendant lessee, United Fuel Gas Company, from a tract of fifty-three acres in which he held no interest, but the lease of which had been unitized with that of an adjoining tract of one hundred sixteen acres, seventy-four ninetieths of which was also held by United Fuel Gas Company as lessee, the complainant being the owner of a one-tenth and M. M. Boggess the…