Barnard v. Monongahela Natural Gas Co.

65 A. 801 (1907)

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Barnard v. Monongahela Natural Gas Co.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court
65 A. 801 (1907)

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Facts

Daniel and Elizabeth Barnard (plaintiffs) owned a farm in Pennsylvania, and James Barnard owned an adjoining farm. Monongahela Natural Gas Co. (the company) (defendant) held a lease on both farms for the exclusive right to drill for gas, with the company paying the landowners for the gas it extracted. The company drilled a new well on James’s land that was close to the boundary with Daniel and Elizabeth’s land and extracted gas from that well. The company later drilled a new well on Daniel and Elizabeth’s land that was close to the well on James’s land, but the well failed to produce any gas. Daniel and Elizabeth sued the company seeking an injunction and an accounting, alleging that the well on James’s land had been fraudulently placed close to their land so as to draw gas from underneath their property over to the well located on James’s property.

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Holding and Reasoning (McIlvaine, J.)

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