Brooks Hall Corp. v. Seay

IRWIN, Justice.

G. D. Mathis and Eupha Glee Mathis (plaintiffs) own a forty acre tract of minerals in Hughes County and Brooks Hall Oil Corporation (petitioner) has an oil and gas lease covering the tract.' Petitioner drilled a well on the tract and produced oil from February 10, 1976, until the well watered out in September, 1976. Plaintiffs complain they are entitled to additional royalty payments from the accrued oil runs from that production.

The forty acre tract is subject to a spacing order or orders issued by the State Corporation Commission (commission). In a division order caused to be…