Carter Oil Co. v. McQuigg

LINDLEY, District Judge.

Plaintiff objects to the master’s report recommending that its complaint be dismissed and seeks a decree enjoining defendants from interfering with its rights as oil lessee of a certain 80-acre tract in Fayette County, Illinois, received by its assignor from Leander J. Wood, on June 9, 1936, by virtue whereof plaintiff ostensibly received the right to mine for and take from the premises oil and gas, a freehold property right under the laws of Illinois. Its prayer in this respect is resisted by defendants, who insist that Wood, the grantor in the lease, had only a life…