Adkins v. Huntington Development & Gas Co.

Woods, Judge:

By this suit the lessors of a certain 112-acre tract seek either (1) the cancellation of a certain lease on the ground that the lessee company is fraudulently drawing and extracting gas therefrom, or (2) a further development of the property. The lessee company appeals from a decree requiring it to drill an additional well, with the possibility of a second, or payment of the usual royalty for two wells, and, in case of failure so to do, that the lease be cancelled as to all the property, with exception of 37-1/3 acres around the present producing well.

On February 2, 1916, W. G.…