Steel v. American Oil Development Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Tyler County. Suit by Charles Newton Steele and others against the American Oil Development Company and others. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Ritz, Judge:
This suit was instituted to recover damages for injuries claimed hv the plaintiffs because of the failure of the defendant to drill oil wells on lands of the plaintiffs so as to prevent wells drilled on adjacent lands from draining the oil from plaintiffs’ lands and thereby depriving the plaintiffs of the royalties thereon. Plaintiffs charge in their declaration that in the month of January, 1895, they made an oil and gas lease to one William .Morris covering the tract of land owned by them in Tyler county and that the defendant by successive transfers of this lease became the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Grass v. Big Creek Development Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1915
- Heller v. DaileyIndiana Court of Appeals · 1902
- Jennings v. Southern Carbon Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1913
- Hall v. South Penn Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1910
- Moore v. Heat & Light Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1909
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3Cited by38 opinions
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- Pan American Petroleum Corp. v. Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation CommissionWyoming Supreme Court · 1968
- Myers v. Shell Petroleum Corp.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1941
- Warfield Natural Gas Co. v. AllenCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1933
- Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. StraussCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1922
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