Coyle v. Louisiana Gas & Fuel Co.

Defendant appeals from a judgment ordering it to pay plaintiff a royalty on the oil, gas, and gasoline produced under an oil and gas lease covering eighty acres of land owned by plaintiff in Webster parish.

The lease in question was executed by plaintiff in favor of Moffitt & Murphy, and, through mesne assignments, is now owned by defendant.

The royalty clause, which we are called upon to interpret, obligates the lessee as follows, viz.:(1) To deliver to the lessor, free of cost, in the pipe line to which he may connect his wells, the equal one-eighth part of all oil produced and saved from the…