Trimble v. Hope Natural Gas Co.

Woods, Judge:

This suit was brought against the Hope Natural Gas Company, assignee of an oil and gas lease, executed March 23, 1925, by plaintiffs to one Chidister, for the purpose of requiring said company to properly develop and to properly protect the 156 acre tract, covered by the lease, from unlawful drainage.

The lease was for a term of five years and as long thereafter as oil and gas or either of them should be produced by the lessee. The lessors were to be paid % of the money received for “sale of said gas, it being understood that the price at which the same is sold shall be 14c per…