In re Hazelwood Oil Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Hazelwood Oil Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Erie Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Cattaraugus on the 22d day of September, 1920, confirming the report of the referee in certiorari proceedings to review the action of the assessors of the town of Allegany, and also from a final judgment entered in said clerk’s office on the same day, confirming the assessments and dismissing the petitions for…
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Appeal by the relator, Hazelwood Oil Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Erie Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Cattaraugus on the 22d day of September, 1920, confirming the report of the referee in certiorari proceedings to review the action of the assessors of the town of Allegany, and also from a final judgment entered in said clerk’s office on the same day, confirming the assessments and dismissing the petitions for the writs of certiorari.
1Opinion of the Court
Hubbs, J.:
The relator, the Hazelwood Oil Company, is a foreign corporation engaged in the oil and gas business in this State. It holds an oil lease of a farm of 268 acres in the town of Allegany, Cattaraugus county, upon which it has forty-nine oil wells. The lease provides that it is “ for the sole and only purposes of mining and excavating for petroleum, coal, rock or carbon oil, or other valuable mineral or volatile substances.” The lease provides that the lessor shall “ fully use and enjoy the said premises for the purposes of tillage, except such part as shall be necessary for said…
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