Barnsdall v. Boley
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern West Virginia
In Equity. Suit by a lessee for the enforcement of an oil lease.
1Opinion of the Court
JACKSON, District Judge.
The question in controversy in this case is the validity of a lease executed by John Boley to S. T. Mallory on the nth day of January, 1895. By the terms and provisions of that lease 100 acres of land, more or less, was granted by the lessor to the lessee for a period of five years, and as much longer as “oil or gas was found in paying quantities,” paying to the lessor the one-eighth part of the oil as royalty. It appears from the evidence that this lease embraced four tracts of land,—one tract of 45 acres, one tract of 25 acres, one tract of 4 acres, all of which…
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