Continental Oil Company v. Anderson

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

George H. Anderson sued Continental Oil Company and Pan American Petroleum Corporation in Harris County. He alleged that he owned a l/12th undivided interest in the minerals in two described sections of land in Crockett County; that defendants owned undivided interest therein and, as co-tenants in the severed mineral estate in said described land, they had drilled wells, in the jointly owned mineral estate, from which they produced oil, gas and other minerals, the exact amount being unknown to plaintiff but known to defendants and he sued for l/12th of the oil, gas and…