Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc. v. Clarksburg Light & Heat Co.

Hatcher, Judge:

In June of 1923, C. W. Perine secured from C. A. Lanham and wife a lease of a tract of 100 acres in ‘.Harrison County, “for the sole and only purposes of mining and operating for oil and gas.” In December of 1923, Perine entered into a written contract with the plaintiff, Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., whereby Perine sold to the plaintiff “the gas from any and all wells owned by said C. W. Perine on the Charles Lanham farm * * * except so much of said gas as may be necessary for the operation by the said C. W. Perine of his wells on said farm, and for any and all gas so taken and…