The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-07-19
Big OIL SUIT.
Important Principle Involved in
a suit Brought Here.

a suit Brought Here.
Joint Lease Holder Alleged to Have LET
Lease Lapse and Then to Have Sc
cured 1t For Himself-Former Joiat
Owners Sue For Damages-Territory
Involved in Battelle District.
Chas. A. Weaver, and others, VS.
Jerome b. Akin, and others.
This is suit in Chancery brought
this day and returnable to the Aug
ust Rules and will be set for hear
ing at the October term, next, The
controversy arises over a very val:
liable oil and gas property situate
in Battelle District in this county,
on the farm known as the A. Z.
Taught Farm, containing about 16l
acres of land, upon which has been
drilled valuable oil well, and an
other will soon be completed to the
oil bearing sand within the next
four or five days.
The allegations of the bill, which
is very lengthy, are that the de.
PENDANT, jerome b. Akin, is now at
tempting to set up title to the
whole of the valuable oil property
under second lease from A. p.
Taught, farmer who owns the
land on which the we'll has been
drilled, and that Akin has procured
from Taught second lease for oil
and gas purposes, and that this suit
in chancery is brought to enjoin and
restrain Akin from selling or en-
numbering the oil property and to
remove a cloud from the title of the
plaintiffs, and to restrain Akin from
interfering in the completion of the
well now about drilled into the oil
bearing sand.
And as apart of this proceeding an Or
der of attachment has been sued out in
addition to the injunction, which at
tachment has been sued out and levied
upon the property of Akin in this
county and other parts OF the State.
: The bill alleges that Akin, in con-
sideration of 1892 of the working in
terest in the lease hold, drilled the
we'll No. on the farm, and was
tenant in common with the fifteen
or twenty plaintiffs named in this
suit and that, after Akin found the
property was very valuable for oil pur-
poses, he clandestinely and fraudu-
lently secured second lease from the
farmer, A. P. Taught, and after hold
ing this lease for eleven months in
his possession, recorded it last month
in our County Clerks Office: and the
plaintiffs in this suit hearing Of this
transaction, brought this suit in
chancery for the purpose already stat
ed. The plaintiffs claim that they
own 1872 working interest in the
Taught well now being drilled upon
the part of the farm known as the
fifty acre tract.
This property would bring to-day
on the market 800, 100000 in the
opinion of oil experts, and joins the
celebrated Sarah Ellen Eddy tract Of
land which is we'll known to our peo-
pie, and owned for oil and gas pur-
poses by some Morgantown citizens.
This bids fair TO be one of the cele-
brated oil suits of West Virginia.
This suit in chancery has been
brought by Caldwell & Caldwell, at
torneys, of Wheeling, w Va, and
Cox and Baker and Lazzelle and Stew
art attorneys If orr eitv. on behalf
If nlaintiffs
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