Putnam Company v. Fisher

Lovins, President:

These suits having been consolidated and heard together, come to this Court by appeal from a final decree of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County. The Putnam Company, allegedly owning a fee simple estate in the oil and gas underlying the northeast one-half of a 9700-acre tract of land, brought a suit against W. L. Fisher and, as far as can be ascertained from the pleadings, one hundred seventy other persons as defendants. Another suit against B. E. Jones and eight other defendants was also instituted. Poca Coal Land Company, Dorothy S. Johnson, H. S. Johnson, her husband,…