United Gas Public Service Co. v. Eaton

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

The primary question involved in this case, and submitted for decision on an agreed statement oí facts, is: To whom shall rentals and royalties from a producing gas well on the S. E. ¾ of S. W. ¾, section 27, township 23 north, range 16 west, in Caddo parish, be paid?

On December 27, 1928, J. J. Emmons, J. D. Eaton, and B. E. Young executed to D. L. Perkins a regular commercial mineral lease (Bath Form No. 10) on the S. ½ of S. W1 ⅛, section 27, township 23 north, range 16 west. The lease was for a term of three years, and as long thereafter as oil or gas was produced…