Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. v. Donelson

Plaintiff in error and defendant in error are the oil and gas mining lessee and the owner, respectively, of land originally allotted to an Osage Indian.

This action was commenced by the owner, as plaintiff, to recover damages against the lessee, as defendant, in April, 1938. It was based upon three separate alleged causes of action. For the first of these plaintiff alleged that he had been damaged in the sum of $500, the reasonable value of a house that the defendant had removed from the premises without his permission. As a second cause of action it was alleged that plaintiff had been damaged…