Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit October 7, 1902, No. 871 (Federal Oil Co. v. Western Oil Co.)

JENKINS, Circuit Judge

(after stating the facts as above). The nature of property in natural gas and oil contained in the earth, and the legal effect of the instrument here in question, have been settled authoritatively by the rulings of the Supreme Court of Indiana (State v. Indiana & Ohio Oil, Gas & Min. Co., 120 Ind. 575, 22 N. E. 778, 6 L. R. A. 579; People’s Gas Company v. Tyner, 131 Ind.