Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Aiken

The parties will be designated as in the trial court. E. P. Aiken and others filed suit against the Magnolia Petroleum Company. So far as material now, the plaintiff sought an accounting for gasoline produced from gas from wells drilled on premises of plaintiffs under a lease executed by plaintiffs’ predecessors in title and for damages to the land on account of salt water from said wells being permitted to flow over the premises.

On a trial a demurrer was sustained to so much of the petition as sought a recovery for gasoline. The issue of damage to the land from salt water was submitted to a…