United Fuel Gas Co. v. Caldwell

Hatcher, Judge:

This appeal involves the sufficiency of a bill of interpleader. The circuit court sustained the demurrer thereto of defendant Fred Stone. The plaintiff declining to amend, the bill was dismissed.

The bill alleges that in 1906, C. S. Vandal executed an oil and gas lease on a tract of 405 acres in Roane county to the plaintiff’s predecessor in title, which provided, among other things, that the lessor should have gas “free for domestic purposes on the premises out of any surplus over and above what is necessary to operate the farm”; that later a gas well was drilled on the…