Blair v. Sturgill

Judge Cammack

Affirming.

This case involves the right to the use of free gas from a well recently drilled on land of the appellants. The appeal is from a judgment granting Sam Sturgill, plaintiff below, the right to use the gas.

In 1944, Sturgill purchased a tract of land from Lee Bayes which was already encumbered by an oil and gas lease. The original lease contained the following provision: ‘ ‘ * * * that while gas is being produced from the said land under this lease, the Lessor may have, by making his own connection at the well, two hundred thousand (200,000) cubic feet of free gas per year…