Rayl v. East Ohio Gas Co.

This appeal arises from a hearing held by the Court of Common Pleas of Summit County pursuant to the order of this court in Rayl v. East Ohio Gas Co. (1973), 46 Ohio App. 2d 167. In the previous appeal, this court found that in 1928 the predecessors in title to the plaintiffs, the appellants here, had executed and delivered to the defendant, East Ohio Gas Co., an oil and gas lease which gave East Ohio Gas the right to drill for natural gas for a minimum rent plus an additional royalty for any gas removed from the land.

The original agreement was supplemented in 1948 by a written document…