Doehring v. Gulf Production Co.

The litigants will be designated in the opinion like they were in the trial court, plaintiffs and defendant.' The suit was by the plaintiffs, who claimed that they owned a royalty interest therein, against the defendant to recover damages for its alleged breach of a contract to drill for oil upon 1 ½ acres of land in the William Dyson League in Orange eount-y, as well as for injury to the oil-bearing qualities of the land, upon allegations to the general effect that defendant Rad not made due efforts to properly develop the land for oil, but, on tbe contrary, bad negligently drilled three…