North Star Coal Co. v. Waverly Oil Works Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pomeroy,

This appeal is from a judgment on the pleadings declaring terminated and of no effect an oil and gas lease in which defendant has a lessee interest, enjoining defendant from carrying on any operations on the leased premises, and directing that it remove its equipment therefrom. From the pleadings the following appears :

Plaintiff (herein “North Star”) purchased the property in question, some 229 acres, in September, 1960, from one George C. Kuehnert. The deed was made under and subject to an oil and gas lease which had been *243entered into in 1891 between James Mevey…