Legal Opinion
Bowers Co. v. Kanawha Valley Products Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided November 3, 1925No. 5339PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Woods, Judge:
The Bowers Company, a corporation, appeals from a decree pronounced by the'circuit court of Kanawha county, affirming a final decree of the court of common pleas of said county, dismissing its bill and refusing it the relief sought.
In 1912'the Bowers heirs, residing in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (later incorporated as the Bowers Company), leased 1476 acres, situate in Kanawha county, to the Kanawha Valley Products Company, a West Virginia corporation, for oil and gas purposes. This lease grants to the lessee “all the natural gas and oil that may be obtained by said lessee at its…
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