Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Connellee

Plaintiff in error manufactured a large amount of gasoline from cas-inghead gas produced from wells drilled on lands which it had leased from defendants in error.

It is shown without dispute that plaintiff in error paid defendants in error the one-eighth royalty on all the oil which flowed from these wells, and had also paid them $25 per year for each of the wells from which it used casinghead gas.

Defendants in error prosecuted this suit in an effort to recover a large sum, on the theory *159that plaintiff in error was not entitled to manufacture gasoline from thp casinghead gas obtained from said…