CHICAGO, WILMINGTON & FRANKLIN COAL CO. v. MINIER

No. 156-D.

40 F.Supp. 316 (1941)

CHICAGO, WILMINGTON & FRANKLIN COAL CO. et al. v. MINIER et al.

District Court, E. D. Illinois.

August 9, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adams, Hawxhurst, Hawley & White, of Chicago, Ill., Roy C. Martin and Carter Harrison, both of Benton, Ill., Craig & Craig, of Mattoon, Ill., John C. Quilty, of Centralia, Ill., and F. C. Love, of Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiffs.

Weeks, Surles & Potter, of Centralia, Ill., and Baker, Lesemann, Kagy & Wagner, of East St. Louis, Ill., for defendants.


LINDLEY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs sue to enjoin defendants from interfering with their drilling of oil and gas wells upon 120 acres of land in Franklin County. Plaintiffs' title arises by virtue of a mineral deed by defendant Minier to Walter W. Williams, similar in most of its aspects to that involved in Chicago, W. & F. Coal Co. et al. v. Herr et al., 153-D, D.C., 40 F.Supp. 311. Defendants are the grantors in the deed...

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