Superior Court of Pennsylvania August 31, 1990, Nos. 628 and 787 (Pomposini v. T.W. Phillips Gas & Oil Co.)

WIEAND, Judge:

When Wesley L. Pomposini acquired title in 1951 to a tract of 175 acres in Conemaugh Township, Indiana County, the tract was encumbered by a 1946 lease “for the sole and only purpose of drilling and operating for oil and gas, with the exclusive right to operate the same for the term of twenty years, and as long thereafter as oil or gas is produced in paying quantities, or