Hunt Oil Co. v. Kerbaugh

SAND, Justice.

Ivan and Shirley Kerbaugh appealed from an order of the district court enjoining them from interfering with geophysical explorations carried on over their property by the plaintiffs, Hunt Oil Co. and Williams Oil Co. The Kerbaughs asserted the oil companies do not have an unlimited right to conduct seismic exploration over their property and also that the record in this case was inadequate to grant the oil companies injunctive relief. We conditionally affirm.

This case involves geophysical exploration for oil and gas over approximately 1000 acres of land located in Williams…