Gulf Oil Corporation v. Bob Whitaker and Mary Lou Hanson

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Appellees, plaintiffs below, owners of grazing leases acquired by them after and subject to the grant of valid and subsisting oil and gas leases earlier made to the defendant, brought this suit for damages for the death and loss of weight of their cattle, loss of grass, loss of calf crop, and. the purchase of extra feed, which they claimed to have sustained as a result of appellant’s negligent acts and omissions in connection with its rightful entry upon the lands to make seismograph tests.

Urging that the complaint failed to state a claim, the defendant answered,…