Batten v. Campbell

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

^Affirming.

This is a suit in ejectment tried and heard in equity ■without objection, being a companion case of that of W. G. Sawyer v. James Potter, this day decided and reported in 223 Ky. 359, — S. W. — . Briefly stated. W. A; Batten is suing to recover possession and damages for the illegal detention of a 100-acre leasehold. His title is thus derived: (1) April 14, 1917, John M. Ison and wife executed to James E. Hogan an oil and gas lease on a boundary of 800 acres of land in Elliott county. The term of the lease was “five years from date, and as…