Powers v. Bridgeport Oil Co.

This was a bill in chancery filed by the defendant in error in the circuit court of Lawrence county, against the plaintiffs in error, to cancel as a cloud upon his title two certain instruments in writing which are of record in the office of the recorder of deeds in said county, and which, when taken together, purport to give-the plaintiffs in error the right to take oil from thirty-one acres of land situated on the south part of the west half of the south-east quarter of section 30, township 4, north, range 12, west of the second principal meridian, in Lawrence county, of 'which land the…