Gasaway v. Pendergrass

PALMORE, Judge.

In this action the appellees, owners of certain undivided mineral interests in a tract of land located in Lee County, Kentucky, obtained a judgment in the circuit court declaring an oil and gas lease to be terminated. The owners of the leasehold appeal.

The property involved is part of a larger acreage on which a number of producing oil wells had been drilled and operated under a lease or leases made some 40 years ago. By 1951 these wells had petered out and were abandoned. However, there had been some secondary recovery in the local field through waterflooding projects, and it…