Sartor v. United Gas Public Service Co.

ODOM, Justice.

By contract dated; November 30, 1928, plaintiffs granted to.O. E. Hodge the exclusive right to explore forty acres of their land for oil, gas; and other minerals. Hodge assigned the contract to the Louisiana Gas & Fuel Company, a corporation, which drilled one gas-producing well. The contract and the well finally passed into the hands of the United Gas Public Service Company, the defendant in this case.

The gas royalty clause in the contract reads as follows:

“To pay the Lessor two hundred dollars each year for each well producing gas only, until such time as the gas shall be…