Ramage v. South Penn Oil Co.

Meredith, Judge:

Plaintiff brought this suit to have the claims of defendant South Penn Oil Company cancelled as clouds on her title to the coal and mining rights under 110 acres of land in Monongalia County. Bach party claims title to the coal and both trace their respective claims of title to a common source, the heirs of James T. Morris, deceased. The circuit court decreed in favor of plaintiff and defendant appeals.

In 1889 Culver G. Thyng pf New York and Thomas Loan of Pennsylvania became interested in the oil business in Mon-ongalia County. It was about the beginning of the development of…