Martin v. Graf

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammack

Affirming.

This case involves an oil and gas lease on a 300-acre tract of land in Floyd County executed by Jonah Webb and his wife in 1908. The lease came into the hands of the Kentucky-West Virginia Gas Company, an appellee herein, some time after 1927, the time of the institution of this action. The lease was executed for a period of three years, but it was continued from time to time by agreement of the interested parties. The first well was drilled in 1918, and two others had been drilled by 1924. Webb died in 1919, and his wife, who had a life interest…