Legal Opinion
Stowers v. Huntington Development & Gas Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 2, 1934No. 3636PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOPER, Circuit Judge.
An action of ejectment was instituted in the District Court by Huntington Development & Gas Company, a corporation, against Matthias Stowers, J. E. Stowers, and the board of education of Union district, Lincoln county, W. Va., which involved title to the minerals underlying a tract of land of 150 acres on Sycamore creek in said district. The ease was submitted to the court upon an agreed statement of facts, without the intervention of a jury, and the court, being of the opinion that the plaintiff had paramount title to the mineral rights in controversy, rendered a…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- New Colonial Ice Co. v. HelveringSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Sult v. A. Hochstetter Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1908
- Willson v. CleavelandCalifornia Supreme Court · 1866
- Peyton v. StithSupreme Court of the United States · 1831
- Kiser v. McLeanWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1910
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3Cited by10 opinions
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- Campbell Brown & Co. v. ELKINGWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1956
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- Arndt v. BallMichigan Supreme Court · 1953
- Continental Oil Co. v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.District Court, D. Wyoming · 1957
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