Harvey v. American Natural Gas Co.

Citations

• 68 Pa. Super. 96
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 78

Syllabus

<p>Lease — Natural gas lease — Rental—Partition.</p> <p>Where an owner of land executes a lease of the natural gas in the land, and thereafter conveys the land to two persons as tenants in common, reserving to himself a life interest in the gas, and subsequently the two life tenants make an equal amicable partition of.the property by quitclaim deeds by each to the other, each will be entitled after the death of the life tenant of the gas to an equal share of the rentals under the lease; and this is the case although all of the wells may have been on one of the two equal portions into which the land was divided by the partition deeds.</p>