Dawson v. Coulter
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 121, Oct. T., 1918, by plaintiffs, from judgment of O. P. Beaver Co., June T., 1917, Nov 821, on verdict for defendants in case of T. C. Dawson et al., doing business as Hanover Oil Company, v. D. J. Coulter, C. Woodling and C. W. Tope. Ejectment for fourteen acres of oil and gas land in Hanover Township. Before Baldwin, P. J. Verdict and judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appealed.
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Appeal, No. 121, Oct. T., 1918, by plaintiffs, from judgment of O. P. Beaver Co., June T., 1917, Nov 821, on verdict for defendants in case of T. C. Dawson et al., doing business as Hanover Oil Company, v. D. J. Coulter, C. Woodling and C. W. Tope. Ejectment for fourteen acres of oil and gas land in Hanover Township. Before Baldwin, P. J. Verdict and judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appealed. Errors assigned were various rulings on evidence sufficiently appearing by tbe opinion of tbe Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
On March 30, 1915, the owners of several adjoining farms in Hanover Township, Beaver County, leased to D. J. Coulter and others, defendants, for oil and gas purposes, a part of the land “containing fifty acres more or less” describing three sides of the property by reference to public highways and lands of third persons and the fourth “North by lands of first party.”
On December 18,1915, the same owners made a second oil and gas lease for “185 acres more or less” in which Thomas C. Dawson, one of the plaintiffs, was named as lessee. The southern boundary line in…
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