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BATES v. MANSFIELD

No. 5-89-0454.

570 N.E.2d 549 (1991)

212 Ill. App.3d 69

156 Ill.Dec. 73

R.E. BATES, Ann Bates, Cyril Barnardi, Domenico Bernardi, Dorothy J. Brodersen, James O. Brodersen, James Deborer, Earl Dunning, George L. Landsly, Dale Kotnour, R. Bruce McCloskey, M.D., William McCloskey, Leroy Mitchell, Felix E. Nylec, Cal Rinehammer, Andrew J. Roy, Louis Roy, Ronald Tirapelli, Robert Altpeter, Joseph J. Kotnour, Olin Manufacturing, Inc., and Arden Ostrowski, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Ethel MANSFIELD, Gladys Hudson, as Executor of the Estate of W.B. Hudson, Deceased, Defendants-Appellants (Harold Mansfield, Vera L. Cummins, as Executor of the Estate of J.C. Cummins, Deceased, Beatrice Schnell, Vera L. Cummins, Olney Trust and Banking Co., as Trustee of Land Trust 139, Edward Read, Dave Rogers, Timothy K. Strothman, Peter Morse, Sr., Ray Fehrenbacher, Union Oil Co., Bi-Petro, Inc., Oil Producers Association, Inc., Unknown Owners, Heirs, Devisees and Non-Record Claimants, Defendants-Appellees).

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied April 19, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter K. Woody, Springfield, for defendants-appellants.

A. Ben Mitchell, L. James Hanson, Mitchell, Neubauer & Shaw, P.C., Mount Vernon, for Vera L. Cummins and Vera L. Cummins, Executor of the Estate of J.C. Cummins, Deceased.

Jerry Doyle Miller, Olney, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Ray Fehrenbacher, Fehrenbacher Law Offices, Olney, for Ray Fahrenbacher and Peter Morse, Sr.

Justice CHAPMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff-appellees, R.E. Bates, et al., hereinafter referred to as plaintiffs, brought this declaratory judgment action seeking a determination of their oil and gas rights in certain land located in Richland County, Illinois. At the trial of this cause defendants-appellants, Ethyl Mansfield and Gladys Hudson, hereinafter referred to as defendants, asserted that the plaintiffs had no oil and gas rights in...

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