Newton v. Kemper

Miller, President:

The decree appealed from dissolved the preliminary injunction stopping drilling for oil and gas by defendants under a lease from plaintiff, and dismissed her bill.

The plaintiff sought cancellation and removal of said lease as a cloud, on her alleged title; charging the lease to be void for want of consideration, want of mutuality in the covenants, and for uncertainty in the description of the land; and because by its terms the lease, if otherwise valid, had become forfeited for failure of the lessee to drill a well on the premises as soon as the well, then being drilled on…