Thomas v. Kirkbride

In this case, both, plaintiff and defendant claim the exclusive right to operate for and produce oil and gas on a 155 acre tract of land, situate in Biglick township,Hancock county, and known as the Roller farm. Both.claim in virtue of separate and distinct leases, or oil contracts, made and delivered by the owners of the land, on separate and distinct dates. Each lease is made upon a good and sufficient consideration thereunto moving, and is duly acknowledged and recorded. The instrument which forms the basis of plaintiff’s claim is of date July 1897; and that of defendant, of December 1895.…