Pittsburgh & West Virginia Gas Co. v. Shreve

Lively, Judge:

The circuit court upon its own motion has certified to this court for review its action in sustaining a demurrer to an answer in the nature of a cross-bill, as provided in the last clause of sec. 1, chap. 135, Code.

*278Plaintiff filed its bill of interpleader in which, it alleges that it ha,s certain sums of moneys in its hands, as the lessee of a tract of twenty-two acres formerly owned' by Elizabeth and Elija Tuttle, derived from development of gas thereon in paying quantities, and to which sums defendants assert conflicting claims, based on certain conveyances of the land and gas…