Hill v. Unity Oil Company

Opinion op the Court by

Judge MoCandless—

Affirming.

This is a second appeal, the former judgment of the circuit court canceling an oil and gas lease for nondevelopment being reversed by this court on the first appeal. Unity Oil Co. v. Hill, 200 Ky. 651, 255 S. W. 151. On a return of the case appellants filed an amended petition pleading abandonment upon the.part of the lessees. A demurrer was sustained to this plea and the petition as amended dismissed. Plaintiffs appeal.

The original lease covered a boundary of 300 acres. Two hundred and six acres of this leasehold was assigned several times.…