Brown v. Vandergrift
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county: Of October and November Term 1875, No. 208. This was an action of ejectment, brought July 31st 1874, by James E. Brown, R. L. Brown and B. B. Campbell against J. J. Yandergrift, George Y. Foreman, John Satterfield, H. L. Taylor and Owen Brady, for a tract of thirty acres of land in Donegal township.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Butler county: Of October and November Term 1875, No. 208. This was an action of ejectment, brought July 31st 1874, by James E. Brown, R. L. Brown and B. B. Campbell against J. J. Yandergrift, George Y. Foreman, John Satterfield, H. L. Taylor and Owen Brady, for a tract of thirty acres of land in Donegal township. The title to the land in dispute, which was part of a larger tract, containing seventy acres, was in Owen Brady, one of the defendants, on the 20th of April 1872. On that day he made an agreement of lease with James M. Lambing. By the agreement,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Agnew
The discovery of petroleum led to new forms of leasing land. Its fugitive and wandering existence within the limits of a par*148ticular tract was uncertain, and assumed certainty only by actual development founded upon experiment. Tbe surface required was often small compared with the results, when attended with success; while these results led to great speculation, by means of leases covering the lands of a neighborhood like a flight of locusts. Hence it was found necessary to guard the rights of the landowner as well as public interest, by numerous covenants, some of the most stringent kind, to…
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