The Superior Oil Co. v. Magee
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
*871Ethridge, J.
This is another and perhaps the final case involving gas units in the Gwinville Field in Jefferson Davis County. The controversy is over the production of natural gas from a tract of 4.65 acres in Unit No. 50. Appellee Mabelle Griffith Magee was the owner of the land when on May 14, 1940, she and her husband, the other appellee, complainants below, executed an oil, gas and mineral lease on this land, along with other lands, to John D. Gholson, who later assigned it to Superior Oil *872Company. Appellees brought this suit in the Chancery Court of Jefferson Davis County on May 27, 1950,…
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