Kepple v. Fairman Drilling Co.

CIRILLO, President Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County in favor of appellee Fairman Drilling Company and against the appellants, Glenn C. and Nora G. Kepple, and from an order requiring an audit and accounting of royalties owed by Fairman Drilling Company to the Kepples and others.

The appellants, the Kepples, leased gas and oil rights which they believed to be attached to twenty five acres owned by them to Fairman Drilling Company in August of 1978. They had acquired the property from Cecelia and Florence Burkley in 1971, subject…