Lovelace v. Southwestern Petroleum Co.
District Court, E.D. Kentucky
At Law. Action by Ollie Lovelace and others against the Southwestern Petroleum Company and others. On motion to direct verdict for defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
COCHRAN, District Judge.
This case involves the construction of two deeds, the deed from the Millers Creek Lumber Company to John S. Robinson, made the 8th day of January, 1908, and .the deed from John S. Robinson'and wife to Pendergrass, made December 8, 1910. The question presented as to the first deed is whether or not the grantor reserved one half of the oil rights in the lands covered thereby, and as to the other whether John S. Robinson, by the deed of December 8, 1910, passed to Pendergrass his half of the oil rights acquired under the Millers Creek Lumber Company deed. Those are the…
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