Wilson v. Reserve Gas Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Lewis County. Suits in equity by J. W. Wilson against the Reserve Gas Company and others and by the Reserve Gas Company ■against J. W. Wilson and others. From the decree in each case, J. W. Wilson appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge:
Tlie decree entered in these two causes, consolidated and heard as one, determined the -rights of two contesting lessees of the same land under leases made by the samé lessors, who are defendants in each case. Wilson brought the first suit against the Reserve Gas Company and others; the gas company brought the second suit against Wilson and others. The decree cancelled the oil and gas lease made to Wilson by Crittenden White and wife February 26, 1914, as a cloud on the oil and gas rights and estates of the Reserve Gas Company granted to it by the same lessors on the same land…
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