Alphonzo E. Bell Corp. v. Bell View Oil Syndicate

The litigation involved in this appeal relates to the controversies among the owners and lease holders of certain oil bearing properties, and the trustees and unit holders of interests in a business or commercial trust created for the purpose of operating part of the property involved. It was begun by the Bell corporation to restrain the alleged unlawful trespass of these trustees by which they were alleged to have abstracted large quantities of valuable oil from the plaintiff’s property by means of “slant” wells. A recapitulation of a part of the history of the litigation is given in an…