Grayce Oil Co. v. Peterson

This case is fully stated in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals (37 S. W. (2d) 367), and an elaborate restatement in this opinion is unnecessary.

The plaintiffs in error, Grayce Oil Company et ah, instituted the suit to recover the value of oil alleged to have been diverted from their producing wells by the operation of a vacuum pump of defendants in error in producing oil from a well, or wells, adjacent to those of the plaintiffs in error, but on a separate lease. The action was also for damages alleged to have been suffered because of the depreciation in market value of the properties…