Morgan v. Snodgrass
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Wetzel County. Bill by I. D. Morgan and H. L. Smith against C. A. Snodgrass and others. Decree for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Brannon, President:
The facts of this case are as follows: Drophy Walters, a married woman, owned a tract of fifty-six acres of land in Wetzel County, and she and her husband conveyed it to a son, L. S. Walters, by a deed never recorded, but lost or destroyed. While *388L. S. Walters owned the land he leased it for oil purposes to the South Penn Oil Company, and that company took possession and bored four wells, three of them producing wells. The Eureka Pipe Line Company has its pipe lines on the land carrying oil from these wells. Afterwards L. S. Walters took a second deed from his mother. L. S.…
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