Addleman v. Light & Heat Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal No. 78, Oct. T., 1913, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Greene Go., Sept. T., 1905, No. 89, on verdict for plaintiff in case of J. A. Addleman v. The Manufacturers’ Light and Heat Co., a corporation. Assumpsit to recover rental alleged to be due on a gas and oil lease. Before Inghram, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for plaintiff for $3,812.59 and. judgment thereon. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal No. 78, Oct. T., 1913, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Greene Go., Sept. T., 1905, No. 89, on verdict for plaintiff in case of J. A. Addleman v. The Manufacturers’ Light and Heat Co., a corporation. Assumpsit to recover rental alleged to be due on a gas and oil lease. Before Inghram, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for plaintiff for $3,812.59 and. judgment thereon. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned, among others, were those referred to in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
On November 8, 1899, the plaintiff leased to The People’s Light and Heat Company all of the oil and gas under a tract of land owned by the lessor in Morgan Township, Greene .County, Pa. The lease afterwards passed into the ownership of the defendant company. It was provided in the lease, that for any gas well producing gas in marketable quantities, a semi-annual sum was to be paid as rental to be ascertained by gauging the well every six months, in the casing in which it was completed. If the well showed for the first minute of the gauging, a pressure of two…
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