Ohio Oil Co. v. Sharp

The Ohio Oil Company will be referred to as Ohio and the General Geophysical Company as General.

The geological information obtained by General, acting as confidential contractor of Ohio, belonged to Ohio. In obtaining such information, Ohio did no wrong to Sharp, and was guilty of no inequitable conduct that in anywise affected Sharp. Sharp was then an entire stranger to the oil and gas rights then owned by his present lessors.

It is well settled that a party may have relief as to a transaction in itself untainted, although his title to the subject matter may have originally grown out of his…