Legal Opinion
Elk Fork Oil & Gas Co. v. Jennings
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of West Virginia
Decided January 25, 1898PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOFF, Circuit Judge.
The Elk Fork Oil & Gas Company, and certain parties in interest with that company, on the 19th day of March, 1897, filed a bill in equity in the circuit court of Tyler county, W. Va., against E. H. Jennings, James M. Guffey, B. H. Glatzau, and others, in which suit on said day an injunction was issued restraining said defendants from taking possession of 1,077 acres of land situate in said county, claimed by the complainants in said cause for oil and gas purposes, under and by virtue 'of certain leases thereon made by the owners of said land. Such suit was, by due…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Bettman v. HarnessWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1896
- Rorer Iron Co. v. TroutSupreme Court of Virginia · 1887
- Venture Oil Co. v. FrettsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
- McConihay v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Moore v. McNuttWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1896
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Lowther Oil Co. v. Miller-Sibley Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1903
- Pikes Peak Power Co. v. City of Colorado SpringsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1900
- Lowther Oil Co. v. GuffeyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1902
- Mills v. HartzSupreme Court of Kansas · 1908
- Peterson v. VakNebraska Supreme Court · 1955
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