United Fuel Gas Co. v. Hays Oil & Gas Co.

HatoheR, Judge:

In this ease the plaintiff, alleging clear title to a tract of 81/3 acres, seeks to restrain the defendants from drilling a well thereon and to cancel the defendants’ title papers thereto, as clouds on the plaintiff’s title. The defendants dispute the title of plaintiff and contest the jurisdiction of equity. Both parties trace their claims to a common source, Daniel Polsley and James S. Connell. In 1854 Polsley and Connell granted 426 acres to Samuel Estep-, who in 1860 conveyed the tract to John Goad, father of the defendant, John Goad. The defendants claim under the Estep…