South Penn Oil Co. v. Edgell
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Pleasants County. Bill by the South Penn Oil Company and others against Mary A. Edgell and others. From a judgment refusing to dissolve an injunction, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Dent, Judge:
Mary A. Edgell and others appeal from a decree of the circuit Court of Pleasants County overruling a motion to dissolve and continuing an injunction against them in favor of the South Penn Oil Company and the Victor Oil and G-as Company.
The appellees held a lease of all the oil and gas under a certain tract of land belonging to the appellants. In addition to a cash consideration of five hundred dollars paid the appellees were to pay three hundred dollars per year in semi-annual payments for the use of the gas from the well already drilled by them, also one-eighth of the oil…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Bettman v. HarnessWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1896
- Eclipse Oil Co. v. South Penn Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1899
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