Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co. v. Ford

KERNER, Circuit Judge.

These appeals involve a controversy over the right to produce oil from a forty-acre tract of land in Franklin County, Illinois. The issues are the proper contruction of deeds of conveyance and the determination of the oil interests created.

Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Company, by mesne conveyances, was vested with all the right, title and interest acquired by the Benton Coal Company, by virtue of a deed dated May 17, 1912, executed by J. T. Chenault and others, conveying “all the coal, oil, gas and other minerals underlying” the north half of the forty-acre tract,…