Williams v. Pelican Natural Gas Co.

LAND, Justice.

The plaintiffs, Rodney L. Williams, Mrs. Geneva Williams Bilbray, and Mrs. Ferba Williams Skinner, all residents of Sabine parish, are the owners of % interest each in an 80-acre tract of land in that parish, described as the S. W. % of N. E. % and N. W. % of S. E. y4 of Sec. 32, Tp. 8 N., R. 11 W.

Section 29 is immediately north of section 32.

The defendant Pelican Natural Gas Company, Inc., on or about September 1, 1933, drilled a producing oil well on the S.W. % of S. E. % of section 29.

The defendant Monroe Production Company, Inc., has drilled three wells, all of which were…