Hancock v. Diamond Plate Glass Co.
Indiana Supreme Court
From Howard Superior Court; Hiram, Brownlee, Judge. Action by Anna E. Hancock and husband against the Diamond Plate Glass Company and others. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal. Transferred from the Appellate Court, under. §1337u Burns 1901.
1Opinion of the CourtHadley, J.
Contract for exploring for natural gas. Suit to recover stipulated sum for delay in putting down a well. On June 18, 1891, appellants and appellee Diamond Plate Glass Company entered into a written contract whereby appellants “granted and contracted” to said *147appellee and its assigns twenty feet square of a certain described tract of forty acres, to be located by mutual agreement, for the purpose and witli tbe exclusive right of putting down a gas-well thereon, with the right of ingress and egress, and to lay pipe and conduct gas therefrom. As a consideration for the grant the gas company…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Cochran v. PewSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
- Edmonds v. MounseyIndiana Court of Appeals · 1896
- Leatherman v. OliverSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1892
- Diamond Plate Glass Co. v. CurlessIndiana Court of Appeals · 1899
- Diamond Plate Glass Co. v. EchelbargerIndiana Court of Appeals · 1899
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- Cohn v. ClarkSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1915
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