Scilly v. Bramer

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

This is an appeal by defendant from an order of the court below in an action of ejectment wherein plaintiffs seek to recover possession of 112% acres of land (less five acres to be surveyed and set apart to defendant) in Warren County, Pennsylvania, leased in 1905 to defendant’s predecessors for the “sole and only purpose of . . . producing ... oil and gas.” The lease was for a period of twenty years. The present litigation is between assignees of the original parties. In 1926 the lease was extended for twenty years, subject to all the terms and conditions thereof; and…