Seneca-Upshur Petroleum was also named as a defendant in the suit.
Sam Horton, Frank Butler, Ken Horton, John Horton, Eric Horton, Lisa Dawn Mullooly, Edward Mullooly II and Lisa Joette Chambers allege that in 1984, J & J Enterprises entered into an agreement with Edward Mullooly wherein he would be an independent contractor to obtain oil and gas leases for the company, according to a complaint filed in Doddridge Circuit Court.
The plaintiffs claim he was to be compensated with the assignment of any overriding royalty.of one thirty-second of seven-eights of the gross production proceeds received from the sale of oil and gas, produced from the leases he acquired, according to the suit.