T. W. Phillips Gas & Oil Co. v. Lingenfelter
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 146, Oct. T., 1918, by plaintiff, from decree of O. P. Jefferson Co., Aug. T., 1918, No. 3, dismissing bill in equity in case of T. W. Phillips Gas & Oil Company v. Hillis Lingenfelter, John Alcorn, Frank Jordon, C. A. Morris and Fred Fike, School Directors of Oliver Township, Jefferson County, Penna., and George W. Wearing. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before Corbet, P. J. Error assigned was decree dismissing the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bbown,
On September 29, 1880, Andrew Smith, the owner of a tract of 176 acres of land in Oliver Township, Jefferson County, conveyed by deed to the school directors of the said township, and their successors in office, one-half-acre of the same, “for school purposes only.” Following this purchase a schoolhouse was erected on the lot, which has been used as such ever since. After the death of Smith the successors to his title to the 176-acre tract executed an oil and gas lease, dated July 27, 1915, to the T. W. Phillips Gas & Oil Company, the description of the…
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