Ulrey v. Keith
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Clark county; the Hon. E. R. E. Kimbrough, Judge, presiding. Appellees, Clarence Ulrey and the Illinois Oil and Gas Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of West Virginia and licensed to do business in Illinois, filed their bill in the circuit court of Clark county, alleging that on the 25th day of January, 1905, A. P. Keith, being the owner in fee of the south half of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Clark county; the Hon. E. R. E. Kimbrough, Judge, presiding. Appellees, Clarence Ulrey and the Illinois Oil and Gas Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of West Virginia and licensed to do business in Illinois, filed their bill in the circuit court of Clark county, alleging that on the 25th day of January, 1905, A. P. Keith, being the owner in fee of the south half of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter, the south-west quarter of the south-east quarter and the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter of section 31,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Farmer
The principal grounds urged by appellants for a reversal of the decree, and discussed in the briefs of both parties, are: (i) That the oil and gas company was a West Virginia corporation, that the assignments of fifteen-sixteenths of the lease were made to it April 30 and May 17, 1905, and that said corporation did not secure a license to do business in Illinois until July 2, 1905 ; (2) that drilling the so-called gas well on appellants’ premises was not a compliance with the terms of the lease, for the reason that the well was not a paying well, as shown by the evidence; (3) that the real…
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