Jefferson County Gas Co. v. United Natural Gas Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 204, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Jefferson Go., Aug. T., 1913, No. 92, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Jefferson County Gas Company v. United Natural Gas Company. Ejectment for lands in Jefferson County. Before Baldrige, P. J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court entered a compulsory nonsuit which it subsequently refused to take off. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 204, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Jefferson Go., Aug. T., 1913, No. 92, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Jefferson County Gas Company v. United Natural Gas Company. Ejectment for lands in Jefferson County. Before Baldrige, P. J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court entered a compulsory nonsuit which it subsequently refused to take off. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was in refusing to take off the nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
This was an action in ejectment; the court below entered a nonsuit, and the plaintiff has appealed.
*284In ejectment the issues are arrived at through a statutory form of pleading: (See Act of May 8, 1901, P. L. 142; Page v. Simpson, 172 Pa. 288, 295). Here, the plaintiff claimed the right of possession in a farm of about 62 acres, for purposes of oil and gas development, under a lease dated August 24, 1912, from one Motter, which lease contained this clause: “It is understood that this land was leased to the Oil City Fuel Supply Company, but the rental was not…
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