Cotiga Development Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• discussing use of a “universal custom” that existed “at the time of the making of the lease” to interpret lease
• distinguishing between wellhead or field price of gas from price received by lessee when gas is marketed
• applying royalty rule, but concluding that defendant would be entitled to offset the present payment of royalty damages against royalties due when the wrongly delayed production of minerals is finally completed
• applying royalty rule, but concluding that defendant would be entitled to offset the present payment of royalty damages against royalties due when the wrongly delayed production of minerals is finally completed
• distinguishing between wellhead price of gas from price received at market
• distinguishing between wellhead price of gas from price received at market

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).