Barbour v. W. H. Tompkins
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Kanawha County. Suit by Barbour, Stedman & .Co. against W. H. Tompkins, the Charleston-Dunbar Natural Gas Company, and the Vespertine Oil &'Gas Company, and others, in which George E. Price, special commissioner to sell the land to satisfy liens, petitioned for an adjudication of the rights of the parties to the lease. Decree for Tompkins, and the Charleston-Dunbar¡ Natural Gas Company and the Vespertine Qil & Gas Com-| pany appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, President:
The decree of which complaint is made on this appeal terminates the right of the assignee of an oil and gas lease t *117continue tbe further operation of the well drilled on the land and the utilization of. the gas discovered therein, on the theory that gas was not found on the leased premises within the term prescribed by the lease. The lessors are W. H. Tompkins and wife, owners of the land demised, and George E. Price, special commissioner to sell the land to satisfy liens against it under an earlier decree in the cause but which remains unexecuted. The lease bears date…
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