Legal Opinion
Carter Oil Co. v. McQuigg
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 20, 1940No. 7071, 7073, 7150PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
This litigation is traceable to the discovery of oil in an area which included an eighty acre tract of land in Fayette County, Illinois, the title to which in 1919 was in Leander J. Wood and his wife, Emily. The discovery of oil in this vicinity gave to the land a value undreamed of and was provocative of an assiduous, aggressive litigation.
The basis of the controversy is the reservation in a quitclaim deed from the fee owners, Leander J. Wood and wife, Emily, to their five children, Lemuel, Charles, John Arthur, Dorothy W. Miller, and Alice W. Gregg (who subsequently…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Orthwein v. ThomasIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
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- Shackeltow v. SebreeIllinois Supreme Court · 1877
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3Cited by43 opinions
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