Williams v. Guffy

Citations

• 178 Pa. 342
• 35 A. 875
• 1896 Pa. LEXIS 1175

Syllabus

<p>Lease — Oil and gas lease — Termination of lease.</p> <p>An oil and gas lease stipulated that it was “ for the sole and only purpose of drilling and operating wells and storing and transporting oil or gas .... to have and to hold said premises .... for and during until the full term of twenty years.” The lease further stipulated that if gas should be obtained in sufficient quantities and utilized, $500 per year should be paid for each and every well drilled. The lessee was to complete one well within six months of the lease; “ if oil and gas or neither is found on this property within two years from date then this lease to expire and be of no effect.” The lessees completed a well within six months, and found gas and utilized it, and subsequently the laud became exhausted, and no more gas was produced. Held, that the lessees were not liable for rent after the cessation of the production of gas and use of well.</p>