Henderson Development Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co.

Riley, Judge:

Henderson Development Company, appellant, brought this suit in equity in the Circuit Court of Putnam County against the United Fuel Gas Company, appellee, for specific performance of a contract to lay a pipe line to plaintiff’s gas well in Teays Valley District, Putnam County, West Virginia, and to require defendant to take and pay for the gas produced therefrom. The case was later transferred to the Circuit Court of Cabell County. From a decree, dismissing plaintiff’s amended and supplemental bill of complaint, the appeal is prosecuted.

In 1918, plaintiff acquired eleven oil and…