Gadbury v. Ohio & Indiana Consolidated Natural & Illuminating Gas Co.
Indiana Supreme Court
From Blackford Circuit Court; JE. G. Vaughn, Judge. Suit by Riley R. Gadbury and another against the Ohio'& Indiana Consolidated Natural and Illuminating Gas Company to quiet title. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal. Transferred from Appellate Court, under subdivision 2, §1337j Burns 1901.
1Opinion of the CourtGillett, J.
By their second paragraph of complaint, appellants seek to quiet tlieir title, to a certain tract of real estate which they allege that they own in fee simple. The cloud that they seek to have removed was occasioned by the execution of a written contract by them and appellee’s grantor, one Andrews, which contract is in the words and figures following: “In consideration of the sum of $1, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, we, R. R. Gadbury and J. A. Gadbury, first parties, hereby grant unto J. S. Andrews, second party, his successors and assigns, all the oil and gas in and under the…
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