Hays v. Walnut Creek Oil Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Kanawha County. Suit by A. P. Hays against the Walnut Creek Oil Company and others. Prom decree for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, PRESIDENT :
Plaintiff by his bill seeks an accounting of an eighth of all *264the oil produced from eight several wells drilled by the Walnut Creek Oil Company, lessee, on a strip of land taken by condemnation in 1892, through the lands now owned by him, by the Charleston, Clendennin & Sutton Railroad Company, for its road way?j and subsequently granted and conveyed by it to the Coal & Coke Railway Company, and that he be decreed :to be the owner of and entitled to one eighth of the oil produced and saved from said wells upon said right of way, or .any other wells which may be hereafter…
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