Dillard v. United Fuel Gas Co.

Maxwell, Judge :

This is a chancery suit by the owners in fee of the oil and gas underlying the John W. Epling tract of 173 acres of land in Roane County, to compel the lessee, United Fuel Gas Company, to drill additional wells for oil and gas on said land. The lessee appeals from a decree of the trial chancellor requiring it to drill two additional wells or to pay $300.00 per annum for each of such wells in lieu of drilling, upon penalty of cancellation of the lease excepting twenty-five acres surrounding each of two wells (one oil well and one gas well) theretofore drilled on said land.

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