Potts v. Fitch

English, Judge:

M. B. Potts brought a suit in equity in the circuit court of Wetzel County against W. R. Fitch, F. P. Lowther, E. J. Thompson, and Henry Oil Company, a corporation, and. filed his bill at August rules, 1897, in which he claims that he and the defendants entered into an agreement to procure a lease for oil and gas purposes on a certain tract of land of about ten acres situated in Tyler County, W. Va., that said parties were to share equally in the expenses and profits of same: that said Fitch attended to taking the lease, and took it in his own name; that at the time said…