Schumacher v. Smith

OPINION

By PHILLIPS, PJ.

Plaintiff is the owner in fee simple, and, by a series of assignments, defendants on May 25, 1945, became the assignees of leases to nine oil and gas producing wells on two parcels of land, of which defendants are now in possession, situated in Monroe county, Ohio, containing 51 and 80 acres respectively, which plaintiff’s predecessors in title leased originally on April 22, 1905, and June 29, 1905, and on which lands since those dates gas and oil wells situated thereon have been in continuous operation.

The original three year lease provided, among other things, that…