Brown v. United Gas Public Service Co.

DAWKINS, District Judge. •

Plaintiff’s suit is for the alleged value .of natural gas at the price of 6‡ per thous- and cubic feet or 3‡ above what he alleges has been paid, for gasoline alleged to have been extracted from said gas and for a refund of a portion of the severance taxes paid to the State of Louisiana, claimed to have been wrongfully deducted in said payments.

The demand is for a total of $4,967.25 made up as follows:

Under a lease executed in favor of the Gulf Refining Company, dated July 23, 1926 (subsequently acquired by the defendant) covering W. % of N. E. quarter and N. E. % of…