Allen v. Colonial Oil Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Tyler County. Suit by John L. Allen and others against the Colonial Oil Company. From a decree -for plaintiffs, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
MlLLER, PRESIDENT:
The bill is to remove as a cloud upon plaintiffs’ title to a tract of 614' acres of land in Tyler County a certain lease thereon for oil and gas, made by Osborn Allen, their ancestor to L. C. Sands, on April 12, 1894, and assigned by the lessee to the Paova Oil Company, which company, .after drilling three wells thereon, the first completed in the Big Injun Sand August 1, 1894, a gas well, the second, a small oil well, completed in the Big Injun Sand in October or November 1896, the third, also a small gas well, completed in the Big Injun Sand early in 1897, since then…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Grass v. Big Creek Development Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1915
- White v. BaileyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1909
- Jennings v. Southern Carbon Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1913
- Steel v. American Oil Development Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1917
- Hall v. South Penn Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1910
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