Cummings v. United Fuel Gas Co.

Maxwell, Judge:

This certified case of Sherman G. Cummings, Alma Campbell, Webster Cummings, Henry F. Cummings and Mabel Cummings Murphy against the United Fuel Gas Company involves the question of the sufficiency of an amended declaration. The trial court sustained the defendant’s demurrer thereto but did not dismiss the action.

On the first of December, 1909, Linnie Cummings, mother and legal guardian of the plaintiffs and their two brothers, now deceased, all of whom were then infants, executed to the defendant, under authority of court, a lease for oil and gas purposes on a tract of…