United Fuel Gas Co. v. Summers

Litz, Judge:

The defendants appeal from a decree of the circuit court cancelling an oil and gas lease from the defendant, M. E. Goans and wife, to the defendant, E. G. Summers, of a strip of land in Kanawha County, containing .875 acre; and perpetually enjoining the defendant E. G. Summers, “his agents, servants, and all others from doing any act under said lease towards extracting or attempting to extract the oil and gas under the said tract of land”.

By deed bearing date February 24th, 1904, the defendant M. E. Goans and wife conveyed to Lewis Wright a tract of land in Kanawha County,…