Barnsdall Oil Co. v. Leahy
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Oklahoma. ■ Bill by the Barnsdall Oil Company against Edward' A. Leahy and others. From a decree dismissing the bill, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The Barnsdall Oil Company, a corporation, appeals from a decree of dismissal of its bill against Edward A. Leahy,’an Indian allottee, and J. W. Rodgers, his tenant, of 120 acres in the Osage Indian reservation, brought to enjoin them from preventing the Oil Company from boring or drilling wells for the production of oil on this land which the defendants insist was a “cultivated inclosure.” The Oil Company had, by virtue of mesne conveyances, the same rights to prospect for, drill, and bore wells upon this real estate that Edwin B. Foster would have had under the lease…
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