Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-20
LEGAL NOTICES..
Sale Of Valuable Oil Property
by Court Commissioners.
LEGAL NOTICES
In the Circuit Court of Monongalia
County. West Virginia.
IN CHANCERY.

In the Circuit Court of Monongalia
County, West Virginia.
IN CHANcERY.
Charles A.. Weaver, David J. States,
tus A; straub, Charles l.. straub, u,
John n. Straub, Bertha G. Letzkus, Ed
ma K. Straub, and Frieda A Straub, Alma
Straub, Walter Nj. Straub, Russell E.
Straub, Archibald j. Straub and Elisa
Straub, said F'rieda, Alma, Walter, Rus
sell, Archibald and Elisa Straub being
all minors, who sue by Chares L. Straub,
George II. Jones, Edgar NJ. Lewis, H. w.
Hunter, J. NJ. Sullivan, Fred l.. Drew,
Charles. NJ. Root and V. t. Clayton,
Plaintiffs,
Jerome B. Akin, A. P. Taught, 7. S. Nc
Cay, and the Eureka Pipe Line Com
pany,, a corporation. Defendants.
BY virtue of DEGREES rendered in the
above entitled cause on the 9th day of
February, 1869, and on the 18th day of
February, 1901, the undersigned special
commissioners will, on
Saturday, the seth Day of March,
a. ID: 1901,
commencing at ten o'clock a. m, at the
front door of the court house of Monon-
gala county. in the city of Morgantown,
West Virginia, sell at public auction, 10
the highest and best bidder, the ieasehold
interests held by the said plaintiffs, and
by the said defendant, Jerome Il. Akin, by
and under the lease dated September 18th,
1887, from A. p. Taught to Charles Powers,
such interests being the .sntre working
leasehold interests created by and exist
ing in and to the A. z. Taught farm I'M
der the said lease, such sale and working
interests to include all the rights, title
and interests of all the parties to this
suit in and to the machinery, boilers. cas-
ing, tubing, tanks, wood rigs, pipes, tools
and all fixtures used in. about or with the
two wells now on said farm, the said
lease granting to the said Powers (under
whom the plaintiffs and said Jerome y.
Akin claim under assignments all OF such
intereStS), all the oil ana gas IN and under
the said farm, together with the right
to enter thereon at ali times for the epur-
pose of drilling and operating COR oil, gas
or water, and to erect and maintain all
buildings and structures, lay all pipes and
make all connections necessary Tor the
production and transportation of oil, gas
or water taken from said farm. except
ing and reserVing, however, to the said
A. p. Taught the one-eighth part of all
oil produced from the said leased prem
ises, to be delivered to the pipe line with
which the lessees connect said farm, be-
ing all that certain tract of land in the
district of Battelle, in M~onongalia county,
in the State Of West Virginia, and pound
ed and described as follows, to-wit.
On the North by lands of Merryman
Price and others.
On the East by lands of A. P. Johnson;
On the South by lands of A. p. Johnson.
On the West by lands of Benson Nick
els and others,
Containing one hundred and sixty-one
acres more or less, including in such work
ing leasehold interests and sale all he
rights, title and interest OF all the parties
to this suit in and 10 the machinery,
boilers. casing, tubing, tanks, wood rigs
pipes, tools, and ali fixtures used In,
about or with the two oil wells now on
said farm.
Their have been-two oil wells drilled on
the said farm under saiG lease, one OF
which has been a paying producer for
about two years past, and the other for
about one year and a half past The said
lease is of record in the office of the clerk
of the county court OF said Monongalia
county, in the court house in M~ergantown
In deed book No. IS, page IS, and refer
ence TO such lease as there recorded is
here made. Such working interests Will
be sold separately in the south III acres
OF said farm, said Ill acres being south OF
a line drawn due east and west through
said farm, with such machinery, tools n
fixtures used in, about or with the Oil
well on said Ill acres, from such work
ing interests in the remaining 80 acres OF
the farm, with the machinery, tools and
fixtures used in. about or with the oil
well on said 80 acres
Terms of Sale-One-third. and as much
more of the purchase money As the pur-
chaser shall elect to pay in cash; the re-
mainder in two equal installments, pay
able at one and two years from the date
of sale, with interest from that day, the
purchaser TO give his promissory notes
with personal security satisfactory to the
commissioners making the sale. bearing
interest from said day of sale for each OF
said notes shall be further secured by the
title to the property sold being retained
until the same are paid.
GEORGE B. CALDWELL.
SEC c. BAKER,
Special Commissioners.
I, William E. Glasscock. Clerk of the
Circuit Court of Monongalia county, in
the State of West Virginia. de certify that
bond and security has been given by Geo.
B. Caldwell and Geo. c. Baker. the above
named Special Commissioners. as required
by law and the DEGREES OF said court.
Given under my and az such clerk this
18th day Of February, A. q. 1901
WM- F. CI-Az<cOCK.
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