Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Puckett

•■ WILLSON, C.'J.

(after stating the case as above).

Appellant insists-that the right conveyed to appellees “of mining and operating for oil and gas” on the land did not pass to them a right to resort to seismographs as a means of determining whether there was oil or gas thereon or not; and that, owning no right to resort to seismographs, appellees should not have been heard to complain because appellant resorted to them for such a purpose, if it did. We think a right to prospect for oil and gas was incidental to the right conveyed to appellees to mine and operate for same on the land, and are…