McCutcheon v. Enon Oil & Gas Co.

Lively, Judge :

In 1911, Allen Rader executed an oil and' gas lease to appellant"Enon Oil & Gas Company on 500 acres of land in Nicholas County. Previous thereto he had conveyed about 200 acres of the land described in the lease to two of his sons, A. F. Rader and B. P. Rader, in fee. In Nov. 1919, Allen Rader conveyed the remaining 300 of the 500 acres to plaintiffs Elizabeth O. McCutcheon and Anna R. Bryant, who in Oct. 1924 (after the death of Allen Rader in 1922) leased the 300 acres to A. L. Craig who, later, in Nov. 1924, transferred his lease to the Carter -Oil Company, also plaintiffs…