Lamp v. Locke
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Pleasants County. Action by Julia Israel Lamp and others against John T. Locke and others. Prom a decree awarding plaintiff a mandatory injunction and another decree refusing to reverse the first decree for alleged errors, certain defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Lively, Judge:
Prom two decrees of the circuit court, one entered on the 14th of September, 1920, awarding' to the plaintiff a mandatory injunction, and the other entered pn the 2nd day of December, 1920, refusing to reverse the first named decree for alleged errors therein, some of the defendants prosecute this appeal.
The bill prays for a mandatory injunction against defendants compelling them to drill an off-set well on what is known as the W. P. Jones 68 acre farm to protect the gas thereunder from depletion through another well within five feet of the dividing line between the W. P. Jones…
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