Myers v. Ohio-Penn Gas & Oil Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

Appellants by their bill sought to enjoin defendants from continuing the production, removal and disposal of natural gas from a well drilled by appellees, under the terms and conditions of a lease executed between the parties to the proceeding, and to have the lease forfeited and cancelled on the ground of breach of its covenants by defendants. The material complaints set forth in appellants’ bill are to the eifect that lessees (defendants) located and drilled the well in dispute at a point less than twenty rods from the building of lessors (plain tiffs) in…