Cooke v. Gulf Refining Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; E. W. Sutherlin, Judge. Action by Mrs. M. L. Cooke against the Gulf Refining Company. From judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSommeryille, J.
Plaintiff sues defendant for damages in the sum of $15,720, with interest, for an alleged trespass by defendant in 1909 upon the land of plaintiff, and for gas used and consumed by it from the land and well of plaintiff. Plaintiff alleges that defendant drilled a well on land belonging to her, and extracted “therefrom the natural gas which underlay the surface of said land, and which was the property of petitioner.” She also alleges that defendant used as a pretense for trespassing upon her land “a so-called lease executed by petitioner in favor of defendant on the 6th day of February, 1907,”…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Brown v. SpilmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Rives v. Gulf Refining Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1913
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