Moore v. Energy States, Inc.

Opinion

W.G. ARNOT, III, Chief Justice.

Ouida Moore and the other appellants/plaintiffs 1 brought suit to obtain possession of and title to real property and also to recover damages related to the drainage of oil from that property. The defendants moved for summary judgment on the following grounds: (1) the plaintiffs’ predecessors in interest had no title to the disputed property and (2) alternatively, any title held by the plaintiffs’ predecessors was transferred to the defendants’ predecessor in interest as a matter of law under the appurtenances doctrine, the strip-and-gore doctrine, or the…