Legal Opinion
Shell Oil Co. v. Manley Oil Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 3, 1941No. 7715PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MINTON, Circuit Judge.
The question we are asked to decide on this appeal is whether the conveyance of the “surface only” of a described tract of land subject to coal rights theretofore conveyed, grants also the oil and gas rights under said tract of land, or whether the oil and gas rights remained in the grantor.
Thomas M. McKemie and wife made a deed in 1907 to Walter S. Mooneyham, conveying to him the “surface only” of two acres therein described land in Franklin County, Illinois, subject to a deed theretofore made to Benton Coal Company of the coal rights under the land. This land came by…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Lillibridge v. Lackawanna Coal Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1891
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- Knight v. Indiana Coal & Iron Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1874
- Williams v. South Penn Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1902
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