Haynes v. Southwest Natural Gas Co.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit was for an accounting for the value of gas taken from one well on, and for the cancellation except as to ten acres of, a 200-acre oil and gas lease.1 The claim on the accounting was that instead of six cents per thousand which had been paid them by defendant, “as the market value at the well”, of their royalty gas, they should have been paid seventy-five cents per thousand, the price at which defendants marketed the gas in neighboring towns. The claim for cancellation was that by reason of the refusal of defendant to develop the premises by the drilling of…