WEST UNION — A surviving daughter is suing an energy corporation, alleging fraudulent representation.
Sarah L. Wine of Doddridge County, also known as Sarah L. Mayle, filed, a complaint April 6 in Doddridge Circuit Court against Pikewood Energy Corporation, Ryan Bashour, individually and in his capacity as president of Pikewood, and Christopher Santore, alleging the defendants provided false information with the intention to induce the property owner to sell her property at a lesser value.
According to the complaint, in June 2017, Wine was contacted by Pikewood about the possibility of purchasing oil and gas on the 260-acre farm that Wine had inherited from her father and where she also resides.
Wine says the defendants had made representation that she only owned only 8 net acres of oil and and gas when, it fact, they knew that she owned 48 net oil and gas acres, in an attempt to purchase the land at a much lesser value.
The complaint also states that during the Sept. 29, 2017, deed signing, unbeknownst to Wine, the defendants were already drilling Webb and Kemper wells. The suit says Wine was also entitled to receive production royalties on the land because of her ownership of a 3/10 undivided interest.
The plaintiff alleges the defendants concealed material facts intended to induce Wine to sell her oil and gas rights at a price below the value of the property.
Wine seeks trial by jury, to declare the Sept. 29, 2017, deed void and direct that the Doddridge County clerk expunge the same from among the county land records, plus court costs, attorney fees and all other relief the court deems appropriate. She is represented by attorney William J. Leon of Morgantown.
Doddridge Circuit Court case number 18-C-7