Lovett v. West Virginia Central Gas Co.

Robdísoe, Judge:

Defendant, claiming under an oil and'gas lease, entered on plaintiff’s land. By this action in ejectment plaintiff sought to oust defendant from possession. At the trial, when the evidence was all in, the court directed a verdict for defendant, and judgment in its behalf followed. Assigning that the court erred in the admission and refusal of evidence and in directing a verdict, plaintiff seeks reversal of the judgment.

The lease under which defendant entered was executed by plaintiff and his wife to the Eastern Oil Company. It is the same lease that plaintiff and his wife…