Warfield Natural Gas Co. v. Jude

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

We have a motion for an appeal from a $200 jndg- * ment recovered by Henderson Jnde against appellant, Warfield Natural Gas Company, for impairment of his health caused by the alleged negligent and wrongful cutting off of the gas supply to his home.

The appellant held an oil and gas lease on the property of the appellee, which contained the provision that the lessor should have “gas free at the well for household use if marketed off the lease.” After a producing well was dug in 1925, appellee made application for free gas upon a form…