Crichton v. Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana

BRUNOT, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment against the defendant for $7,935.56. The plaintiffs have answered the appeal and pray for an amendment of the judgment by allowing them legal interest on the royalties accruing quarterly on the gas and oil reduced to possession and saved by the defendant from a well drilled on the land described in the petition during the defendant’s occupancy thereof as lessee. The said land is situated in the Cotton Valley oil field, Webster parish, La. When the well was completed, it produced gas only, but a few months thereafter production ceased. The well…