Ridgely v. Central Pipe Line Co.

* Mr. Justice Wilson

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs, George H. Ridgely, the record owner of a forty-acre tract of oil land, and Mary Ridgely, his wife, lessors of an oil-and-gas lease, filed an amended complaint in the circuit court of Edwards County against the defendants, Central Pipe Line Company and R. B. Martin, the owners of the oil-and-gas lease, seeking an accounting of their one-eighth share of the oil produced. Ashland Oil and Refining Company, which acquired Central Pipe Line Company’s interest in the lease during the pendency of the action, and Oscar Lamble,…