Hughes v. United Pipe Lines
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered upon an order made February 20, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon the report of a referee.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered upon an order made February 20, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon the report of a referee. This action was brought to recover of the defendant for the wrongful and unlawful conversion of about 5,000 barrels of oil, which the plaintiff claims ivas produced from an oil well belonging to him, and was placed in the possession of the defendant for storage by William and Maria Stephan. The right of the plaintiff to the oil ivas put in issue by the answer of the…
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
It appeared upon the trial that the Stephans put down the oil well from which the oil in question was obtained. Hughes claimed that the well was upon his land, and notified the Stephans of his claim, and also gave notice to the Hnited Pipe Lines, with which the Stephans had stored the oil, of his claim, and that it should not deliver the oil to them. This claim of Hughes and notice to the pipe lines embarrassed the Stephans, and, as they claimed, did them great damage; and they, therefore, brought an action against him, alleging that the well and the oil therefrom belonged to them, and they…
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