Law v. Heck Oil Co.

Maxwell, Judge:

The plaintiff is the owner in fee of an undivided one-seven-hundred and sixty-eighth interest in the oil and gas under lying a tract of 131% acres of land in Jackson county. The Heck Oil Company holds leases for development purposes on the remaining oil and gas interests in the said land, and having failed to obtain a lease from the plaintiff, it undertook to drill a well without his consent, after it had given assurance to him that account would be made for his full proportionate share of the mineral production, if any, without deduction for expense of development or operation.