Engel v. South Penn Oil Co.

Lively, President:

On October 9, 1900, plaintiff, Israel Engel, then about 64 years of age, deeded to defendant, South Penn Oil Company, an undivided one-half of all the oil and gas in and under 338% acres of land owned by him in fee, in Braxton county, and in the deed also leased the other undivided one-half of the oil and gas to defendant for a term of twenty years, beginning after the expiration or voiding of a prior oil and gas lease executed by plaintiff in 1899. At October Rules, 1925, this bill was filed by Engel and Fred L. Fox (who had obtained an oil and gas lease from Engel in 1925)…