Interstate Petroleum Co. v. Farris

*821Opinion ok the Court by

Judge Miller

— Reversing,

For several years previous to November 26,1903, the Interstate Petroleum Company had been engaged in the business of developing territory, and the production of crude oil in Knox County; and for that purpose it had acquired a number of leases of lands in that county.

In the fall of 1903 Frank Ritchey, of Richmond, Virginia, obtained an option from said company to buy its property. Ritchey had theretofore interested Swisher, Kirkland, Meade and other residents of West Virginia in the oil business, and proposed to sell them his option upon the…