Venture Oil Co. v. Fretts
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 176, Oct. T., 1892, by plaintiffs, Venture Oil Co. and C. D. Robbins, from judgment of C. P. Washington Co., Feb. T., 1892, No. 77, on verdict for defendants, A. E. Fretts et al. Ejectment.
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Appeal, No. 176, Oct. T., 1892, by plaintiffs, Venture Oil Co. and C. D. Robbins, from judgment of C. P. Washington Co., Feb. T., 1892, No. 77, on verdict for defendants, A. E. Fretts et al. Ejectment. At the trial, before McIlvaine, P. J., plaintiff claimed title under a lease from Joseph M. Gamble, which was as follows: “ This lease made this 26th day of December, A. D. 1888, by and between Joseph M. Gamble of Cecil township of the county of Washington and state of Pennsylvania of the first part, and C. D. Robbins of Burgettstown, Washington county, state of Pennsylvania of the second part,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
This appeal presents a somewhat novel state of facts. The evidence shows that in 1883, C. D. Robbins, then a well known and experienced oil operator, procured leases upon a body of farms in Cecil township, Washington county, aggregating about fifteen hundred acres.
The territory covered by these leases was at that time wholly undeveloped, and the object of the several lessors as well as of the lessee was to ascertain by the actual use of the drill whether it was underlaid with oil. One of these leases was obtained from J. M. Gamble, whose farm included one…
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