Legal Opinion
Hawkins v. Byrn
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 15, 1923PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mu. Chief Justice Green
delivered the opinion of the Court. •
The Wilbarger County Oil Company, a Texas corporation, owned leases on about 2,500 acres of land in Texas. It had started the digging of a well on this property and had gotten down about 600 feet. The gentlemen who held the stock of the Wilbarger County Oil Company owned, as individuals, oil leases on about 2,100 acres of land which adjoined the property of the oil company. The same gentlemen as individuals owned a well-drilling outfit with which they had started the well on the oil company’s property just mentioned.
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2Cases cited7 opinions
- A. Landreth Co. v. SchevenelTennessee Supreme Court · 1899
- Siler v. PerkinsTennessee Supreme Court · 1912
- Curtis v. BrannonTennessee Supreme Court · 1897
- Robeson v. RamseyTennessee Supreme Court · 1922
- Taylor v. SwaffordTennessee Supreme Court · 1909
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