Jennings v. Southern Carbon Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Doddridge County. Suit by Virginia Jennings against the Southern Carbon Company and others. Prom decree for defendants, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge :
The plaintiff brought her suit to obtain relief against the Southern Carbon Company, and others alleged to be interested with it, for failure properly to test her lands for oil and gas under a lease for that purpose theretofore executed by her and of which it -had become the owner by assignment, and for failure to protect her lands from drainage through wells on adjoining lands drilled under other leases in which she alleges its stockholders and agents had an interest with another defendant. The circuit court dismissed the bill on demurrer, and she appealed.
The lease is in the…
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