Logan Natural Gas & Fuel Co. v. Great Southern Gas & Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. The bill in this case was filed by the appellee, who claims certain rights as assignee of two leases .given by Noah Conrad and Anna E. Sheets, respectively, on May 4, 1898, to one Carr, conferring the exclusive right to operate on the lands described therein for gas and oil, against the appellant, who claims, as assignee, similar rights under leases executed by the same lessors on April 12,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. The bill in this case was filed by the appellee, who claims certain rights as assignee of two leases .given by Noah Conrad and Anna E. Sheets, respectively, on May 4, 1898, to one Carr, conferring the exclusive right to operate on the lands described therein for gas and oil, against the appellant, who claims, as assignee, similar rights under leases executed by the same lessors on April 12, 1894, to the Fairfield Gas & Oil Company, which last-mentioned leases, as the bill states, had been abandoned by the…
1Opinion of the CourtSeverens, Circuit Judge
The decisive question in this controversy is the one upon which the decree of the Circuit Court was turned; that is to say, the question whether the lessors in the leases to Carr, in 1898, had at that time the lawful right to grant the leases by reason of the abandonment or forfeiture of the former leases to the Fairfield Oil & Gas Company by the lessee therein.
The original leases to the Fairfield Oil & Gas Company were alike in all substantial particulars, and purported to grant the lands described to the lessee for the purpose only of operating thereon to obtain the oil and gas supposed to…
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