Kokomo Natural Gas & Oil Co. v. Albright

Black, J. —

The appellees, John Albright and Anna E. Albright, his wife, sued the appellant upon a contract, by the terms of which the appellees agreed with the appellant, on the 6th of June, 1890, that said company might have the exclusive right to drill and operate a well or wells for water, oil, or natural gas upon a plat of ground to be mutually agreed upon, twenty feet square, upon certain described land in Howard county, together with the further exclusive right to lay pipe lines over the same-or along the highways adjacent thereto, and construct telegráph and telephone lines when the…