Higgins Oil & Fuel Co. v. Guaranty Oil Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; T. F. Bell, Judge. Suit by the Higgins Oil & Fuel Company against the Guaranty Oil Company, limited. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The plaintiff holds an oil lease of a tract of land adjoining another tract of which the defendant holds a lease of the same kind. The plaintiff sunk a well on its tract, and was drawing oil from it by means of a pump at the rate of some 124 barrels a day, when defendant sunk a well on its tract approximately 400 feet from plaintiff’s well. This well of defendant proved a nonproducer, and was abandoned. Through some underground communication it lets air into the radius affected by plaintiff’s pump, thereby reducing the suction power of the pump, and as a consequence reducing markedly its…
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