Gibbs v. Southern Carbon Co.

DREW, Judge.'

Defendant Southern Carbon Company is the owner of, a mineral lease granted in 1917 by Owen S. Gibbs, ope of the plaintiffs, to 200 acres of land in Ouachita Parish. The pertinent royalty clauses were: “The royalties above mentioned shall be (a) on oil * * * (b) on natural gas, at the rate of $200 per annum, payable quarterly, for each well producing gas exclusively, and from which gas is then being used or sold off the premises, it being understood that the lessor shall have the privilege, at the lessor’s own risk and expense, of making connections and using gas from such wells…