Bumpus v. Ohio Cities Gas Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Boone County. Suit for injunction by C. J. Bumpus and others against the Ohio Cities Gas Company and others, with cross-bill answer. Prom a final decree dissolving an injunction previously awarded to plaintiffs and perpetuating the injunction awarded defendants on their cross-bill answer, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
MilleR, Judge :
The controversy here involved is between the Board of Education of Sherman District, Boone County, lessor, and G. J. Bumpus, its lessee, on the one hand, and the Ohio . Cities Gas Company, a corporation, grantee of Jas. A. Holley and Samuel Stephenson, and other defendants, on the other hand, as to the rights of the respective parties to the oil and gas under a certain school house lot on Joe’s Creek, in Boone County, alleged by the plaintiffs to contain one acre of ground, a part of the larger tract which was granted by Holly and Stephenson and others to defendant the Ohio…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Hudson v. PutneyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1878
- Custer v. HallWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1912
- William James Sons Co. v. HutchinsonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1916
- Clark v. BeardWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1911
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