Willis v. Mills Tooke Properties

In the early part of the year 1948, the defendant, Mills Tooke Properties, Inc., a Louisiana corporation, of which Mr. Mills Tooke is president and general manager, drilled two producing oil wells in the southern part of Oil City in Caddo Parish, under lease from Henry C. Baldridge that embraced a lot on which Baldridge lived, containing approximately one-third of an acre. The record does not definitely disclose the date the wells "came in" as producers. They were not drilled simultaneously, but both were completed prior to the time of happening of the transactions which gave rise to this…