Kuklies v. Reinert

This case was originally filed by the Lone Star Gas Company as a Bill in Interpleader to determine to whom certain royalty payments on gas produced from lands in Hamilton County should be paid.

Appellant Kuklies and wife own a 210 acre tract; Appellant Julius Reinert and wife own a 280 acre tract; Appellee Otto Reinert and wife own a 195 acre tract. The lands of each of these 3 owners is adjacent to the land of at least one of the other 2 owners.

Each landowner executed a separate oil and gas lease on the acreage of his particular land as above noted, adequately describing same.

The leases from…