In what attorneys on the case call “an extraordinarily widespread problem throughout the commonwealth,” a proposed class of Pennsylvania real property owners are claiming that the country’s largest gas producer failed to pay them royalty for the resources it extracted from the plaintiffs’ land. 

Seth Meyer and Alex Dravillas with Keller Lenkner and Scott Hare and Anthony Gestrich of Whiteford Taylor Preston filed suit against EQT Corp. and a number of its subsidiaries in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday. They are representing Pennsylvania resident Richard Ross and Pennsylvania company Fieldstone Ventures LLC as the named plaintiffs in a class of real property owners that the attorneys predict could come to number in the thousands.