Johnson v. Armstrong
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Monongalia County. ' Suit by S. J. Johnson and others against G. B. Armstrong and others, together with suit by the Pentress Gas Company against the Monongahela Natural Gas Company and others. From decrees for complainants, the Monongahela Natural Gas Company and another appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, President:
The decrees entered in these causes, argued and submitted together, canceled the two oil and gas leases made to G. B. Armstrong in 1898, one of them by W. J. Clark and wife June 15 on 136 acres, the other by S. J. Johnson and his sister Abigail J. Johnson June 16 on 75 acres, as clouds upon the title of the owners and upon the oil and gas rights and estates of Joseph H. McDermott and Pentress Gas Company, his assignee thereof. The Chartiers Oil Company and Monongahela Natural Gas Company have appealed.
The Chartiers Oil Company acquired by assignment from Armstrong in 1898 the…
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