United Carbon Co. v. Webb

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Cammack

Dismissing appeal.

Appellees, Sam and Virgie Webb, filed this action against appellant, United Carbon Company, to recover $650 for damages alleged to have been caused by the manner in which appellant entered upon their land and drilled a gas well thereon. Appellant filed an answer and counterclaim setting out that it had entered upon the land under a deed to the mineral rights which appel-lees had conveved in 1910. Sam Webb testified that a deed to the mineral rights had been executed in that year. The trial court gave the following instruction to the jury:

“I…