LAFITTE COMPANY v. UNITED FUEL GAS COMPANY

No. 379.

177 F.Supp. 52 (1959)

LAFITTE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. UNITED FUEL GAS COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Kentucky, Pikeville Division.

August 7, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eli H. Brown, III, Marshall Eldred, William G. Hume, Edward S. Bonnie, Louisville, Ky., J. W. Howard, Prestonsburg, Ky., for plaintiff.

C. E. Goodwin, Herbert W. Bryan, H. L. Snyder, Jr., Charleston, W. Va., J. Peyton Hobson, Jr., Pikeville, Ky., for defendant.


SWINFORD, District Judge.

The plaintiff seeks an accounting, declaration of rights, and damages, growing out of an alleged violation on the part of the defendant of its covenants and obligations as lessee under an oil and gas lease on properties in Floyd and Knott Counties, Kentucky, owned by the plaintiff, lessor.

On October 3, 1924, the Elk Horn Coal Corporation executed a lease to the Ohio Fuel Oil Company for the working interest in 14,983 acres of land...

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