Midland Valley R. v. Corn

KENNAMER, District Judge.

This action was brought by the Midland Valley Railroad Company to prevent the defendants from drilling and operating an oil well on the right of way of the complainant railroad company, located on a strip of land in the town of Oxford, Sumner county, Kan, A fee-simple title is claimed by the complainant to the land in question, by virtue of the following instrument; the Midland Valley Railroad Company being the lessee of the grantee named therein:

“For'and in consideration of five hundred dollars in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, and the…