Westmoreland N. Gas Co. v. DeWitt
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY PLAINTIFF FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY, IN EQUITY. No. 167 October term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given.
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APPEAL BY PLAINTIFF FROM THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY, IN EQUITY. No. 167 October term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, number and term not given. On May 31, 1887, the Westmoreland and Cambria Natural Gas Company filed a bill in equity against Ira DeWitt, John H. Brown and others, averring that tbe defendant John H. Brown, being the owner of a certain tract of land in tbe bill described, demised tbe same to J. M. Guffey & Co. on December 7, 1885, for the sole and only purpose of drilling and operating for petroleum oil and gas; that this lease was afterwards duly assigned to…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mb. Justice Mitchell :
Complainants filed a bill, setting, forth a lease of land from *248Brown, one of the respondents, for oil and gas purposes; the expenditure of large sums of money under the lease; a subsequent lease of the same land by Brown to the other respondents, who took with knowledge of complainants’ rights ; and the entry by them with the intent to drill a well upon the said land, and take gas, etc. The bill concluded with an averment that such a well could be drilled and put in operation in about forty days, long before an adjudication could be had upon the rights of the…
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