Ford v. Witwer

Plaintiffs started this suit in the circuit court of Franklin county for the purpose of settling in them the title to mineral rights in certain lands and to remove from the records as a cloud on the title to the mineral estate an oil and gas lease executed by the defendants to the Ohio Oil Company. After a hearing of evidence the complaint was dismissed for want of equity.

In 1905 the title to the lands involved was held in three ownerships. The then owners of two of.the tracts conveyed to Carl Scholz by warranty deed all coal and other minerals in the land described “together with the right…