Bartley v. Atlantic City Electric Co.

GRAFF, J.,

— This matter comes before us upon a petition for distribution of a sum of money which arose as a result of a condemnation proceeding.

In 1960 and in 1961, C. D. Hilty was the lessee under a gas and oil lease upon the Marshall Farm consisting of 140 acres, and he also had the privilege of drilling one well upon the Smeltzer Farm granted to him by the Equitable Gas Company, the lessee of said tract of land. Both of these tracts of land are situate in Cowanshannock Township, this county. In the aforesaid years, Hilty drilled a well on each tract, both of said wells being drilled to the…