Legal Opinion
LAFITTE COMPANY v. United Fuel Gas Company
District Court, E.D. Kentucky
Decided August 7, 1959No. 7:11-misc-07005PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWINFORD, District Judge.
The plaintiff seeks an accounting, declaration of rights, and damages, growing out of an alleged violation on the part of the defendant of its covenants and obligations as lessee under an oil and gas lease on properties in Floyd and Knott Counties, Kentucky, owned by the plaintiff, lessor.
On October 3, 1924, the Elk Horn Coal Corporation executed a lease to the Ohio Fuel Oil Company for the working interest in 14,983 acres of land, which was a part of a tract in Eastern Kentucky and identified throughout the record as the “Checkerboard” area. The whole Checkerboard…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Insurance Co. v. DutcherSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Carthage Tissue Paper Mills v. Village of CarthageNew York Court of Appeals · 1910
- Saulsbury Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1944
- Warfield Natural Gas Co. v. AllenCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1935
- Rains v. Kentucky Oil Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1923
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