United Fuel Gas Co. v. Koontz

Woods, Judge:

This suit was brought for the purpose of enjoining L. V. Koontz and Columbian Carbon Company from proceeding further with the drilling of a certain gas well upon a tract of fifty-four acres, near Clendenin, Kanawha County, and to cancel certain purported title papers as clouds upon plaintiff’s superior title to the oil and gas underlying said tract of land, upon the theory that the fifty-four acre tract is covered by plaintiff’s 238-aere lease, executed on November 21, 1912, for a period of ten years by L. V. Koontz, in his own right, and as attorney-in-fact for L. K. Koontz, Ada…