Hiller v. Humphreys Carbon Co.

The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment rejecting her demand to have an oil and gas lease declared forfeited. The complaints are: First, that the lessee failed to drill enough wells to make the lease profitable to the lessor, commensurate' with its value; and, second, that in ■consequence of the lessee’s failure to drill enough wells the land was being drained of its gas by wells on other lands in the neighborhood. ’

The lease covers 429 acres in the Ouachita-Morehouse gas field, and was granted to E. I. Newblock on the 13th of June, 1917. He assigned it to the Sterling Gas & Oil Company on…