Bowen v. West Virginia Gas Corp.

Maxwell, Judge:

This is an equity suit to cancel an oil and gas lease for failure to market the gas discovered in a well which has been drilled under the lease.

The court of common pleas of Cabell County decreed cancellation, but the circuit court reversed the decree and remanded the case. The plaintiff was awarded an appeal from the decree of the circuit court.

The lease was executed August 23, 1926, by Etta Bowen and Fletcher Bowen, her husband, to J. C. Blair. By assignment the lease came into the ownership of the West Virginia Gas Corporation which, in the latter part of 1931, drilled and…