Smith v. Linden Oil Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Tjder County. Suit by 6. D. Smith and others against the Linden Oil Company, the Eureka Pipe Line Company, and others: From the decree the Eureka Pipe Line Company appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Beahnoh, Judge:
Oil 24tli December, 1898, T. EL. Harter and wife made a lease for development of oil and gas to W. S. Miller, trustee, of a tract of 51 acres of land, which lease Miller assigned to the Linden Oil Company. The lease bound the lessee to pay to t}ie lessor Harter a royalty of one-eighth of oil produced, and “to deliver the same free of expense, into tanks or pipe lines to the credit of the party of the first part.” On the 12th October, 1900, by deed recorded 13th October, 1900, Harter and wife conveyed to G. M. Smith and I. M. Dnderwood the undivided thirty-second of the oil that…
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