South Penn Oil Co. v. McIntire
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Tyler County. Bill by tlie South Penn Oil Company ag-ainst A. B. Mc-Intire, committee, and others, for an injunction to restrain defendants from interfering- with plaintiff’s possession and use of certain land. From a judg-ment sustaining- defendant’s demurrer to the bill, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
McWhorter, Judge :
On. the 29th of April 1895, A. B. McIntyre was by the clerk of the county court of Tyler county, without the notice required by law first served, appointed committee of Lucretia J. Thompson, a lunatic. On the 1st day of May, 1895, said committee, together with Elihue Thompson and Erufus G.'Thompson (the said three Thompsons being the sole heirs at law of Mary A. Thompson, deceased), leased to the South Penn Oil Company ninety and one-half acres of land in Tyler county for oil and gas purposes ; and the lessee was to pay a royalty of one-eighth of the oil produced in the pipe…
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