Germer v. Triple-State Natural Gas & Oil Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Cabell County. Bill by Edward G. Germer and others against the Triple-State Natural Gas & Oil Company and others. Decree for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
McWhorter, President:
Triple-State Natural Gas and Oil Company was chartered by the State of West Virginia on the 5th day of May, 1898, “For the purpose of acquiring, owning, leasing, holding, developing and disposing of lands, and interest in lands containing, or supposed to contain, oil or natural gas, or both, or of acquiring, owning and operating all such pipe lines, and other instrumentalities as may be necessarj^ and desirable, or either, in the production, transportation, consumption, sale, and delivery of oil or natural gas, or both, and of doing all other lawful acts necessary or…
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