Smith Oil Co. v. Logan

This is a companion case to Southwest Petroleum Company et al. v. Margaret Logan et al., and Southwest Petroleum Company et al. v. Charles Swindall et al., both this day decided, 180 Okla. 477, 72 P. (2d) _ This action involves the right to drill for oil and gas on block 20 of Lincoln Terrace addition in Oklahoma City, and the facts and issues in all three eases are substantially the same.

J. J. Culberston, Jr., owner of an undivided one-half interest in block 20, and his wife had executed an oil and gas lease to the Smith Oil Company, and it had applied for a permit to drill upon that block.…