Simmons v. Buckeye Supply Co.

This case comes into this court on appeal. The plaintiffs seek to recover a share of the oil produced from walls drilled on certain premises of which they are the owners. It appears that they became the owners of the premises — ■ consisting of about sixteen acres of land in Wood county,. Ohio — by conveyance from Elizabeth Euher, on the 14th-day of October, 1892, and they seek to require the defendant, the person in possession of and operating these premises for oil, to account to them for a share of the oil, their contention being that under the custom of the country they should receive, as…