Stiles v. Schaffner

Hatcher, Judge:

This action was brought at December Rules, 1935, to recover certain gas rentals which had accrued since September, 1919. A verdict was rendered for plaintiffs for the sum demanded and judgment thereon entered in their favor.

The plaintiffs, as remaindermen, and their mother, as life tenant of land, executed an oil and gas lease thereon in 1913, to C. W. Wally. The lease required a quarterly rental of $75.00 for each producing gas well. Such a well was drilled in 1914, and is still producing. Defendant testified that in 1918, Wally “turned over” the well to him and he assumed…