People's Gas Co. v. Dean
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. Suit in equity by Louise Dean against the People’s Gas Company and the Springfield Oil Company. Decree for complainant, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
RINER, District Judge.
This was a bill in equity filed by the appellee, hereafter called the “complainant,” against the appellants, hereafter called the “defendants,” to quiet her title to the S. % of the S. E. Yi °f section 7, township 34, range 16 E. of the Sixth principal meridian, by decreeing the cancellation of an oil and gas lease which the bill avers is a cloud upon the complainant’s title.
June 26, 1900, Charles Mavers and Mary Mavers, the then owners of the land above described, executed an oil and gas lease to the Kansas Oil & Gas Company in the following words:
■‘In consideration of…
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- Brewster v. Lanyon Zinc Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905
- Godkin v. MonahanCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1897
- Hancock v. Diamond Plate Glass Co.Indiana Court of Appeals · 1905
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