United Fuel Gas Co. v. Morley Oil & Gas Co.

LivteDY, Judge:

This appeal is from a vacation decree entered July 6, 1925, dissolving an injunction which enjoined defendant, Morley Oil & Gas Company, from drilling for oil and gas on an acre of land used by the board of education for school purposes under a deed made to its predecessor in title, Geary Township, by T. B. Swan, Jas. H. Brown, ¥m. F. and J. H. Gos-horn, dated December 8, 1869. The controversy is based on the different interpretations of that deed.

The grantors in the above deed, when it was made, owned a large tract of land containing more than 5,000 acres, in Geary Township of…