Shafer v. O'Brien

Johnson, President :

In March, 1884, J. R. Shafer -filed his bill in the Circuit Court of Ritchie county, in which he alleged that in the year 1872 the West Virginia Oil & Oil-land Company, a Michigan corporation, owned a tract of oil land in said county and continuously owned the same until the commencement of this suit; that during the year 1872 and for many years thereafter one B. S. Compton was the president of said company and a director and member of the executive committee; that on the 15th day of April, 1872, the said company by said Compton, its president, made a certain contract in…