Indiana Natural Gas & Oil Co. v. Harper
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Blackford Circuit Court; Charles E. Sturgis, Judge. Action by Hannah E. Harper and another against the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company and another. From a judgment for plaintiffs, the defendant Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtIbach, J.
— The amended complaint avers that plaintiff Hannah E. Harper, the owner of certain lands in Grant county, Indiana, on May 18, 1897, entered into a lease contract, set out in the complaint, with one J. P. Forrest, granting to him the oil and gas rights in these lands. This lease contract was sold by Forrest to the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company, for a valuable consideration. Hannah E. Harper sold and conveyed by warranty deed, for a valuable consideration, to plaintiff Mack E. Lewis twenty acres of the lands described in said contract, and he is now the owner in fee simple of such tract…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Indiana Natural Gas & Oil Co. v. HintonIndiana Supreme Court · 1902
- Indiana Natural Gas & Oil Co. v. LeeIndiana Court of Appeals · 1904
- Indiana Natural Gas & Oil Co. v. LeerIndiana Court of Appeals · 1904
- Indiana Natural Gas & Oil Co. v. GaniardIndiana Court of Appeals · 1910
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