Orth v. West View Oil Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 291, Oct. T., 1893, by Jarecki Mfg. Co., Ltd., from order of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1891, No. 278, fi. fa., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report, distributing proceeds of sheriff’s sale, G. C. Orth, Trustee, v. West View Oil Co. Exceptions to auditor’s report, distributing fund raised by sheriff’s sale of leasehold estate.
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Appeal, No. 291, Oct. T., 1893, by Jarecki Mfg. Co., Ltd., from order of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1891, No. 278, fi. fa., dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report, distributing proceeds of sheriff’s sale, G. C. Orth, Trustee, v. West View Oil Co. Exceptions to auditor’s report, distributing fund raised by sheriff’s sale of leasehold estate. Appellant’s lien filed, claimed a lien “on those certain improvements known as four oil wells, together with four rigs, three boilers, four engines and the machinery and fixtures appurtenant to said wells, constructed, erected and put up by…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green,
The claim of lien in this case is filed indiscriminately “ for oil well supplies, oil, gas, water and steam fittings and pipe furnished to said West View Oil Company for said oil wells, rigs, boilers, engines, machinery and fixtures connected therewith and appurtenant thereto,” and in the descriptive part of. the claim the subjects of the lien are described as “ consisting of four excavations for wells, and over each of these a wood-rig or derrick, for the purpose of drilling or operating said wells when drilled, three boilers, four engines, connected by proper…
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