Hamilton v. McCall Drilling Co.

Riley, President:

G. W. Hamilton and J. H. Ferrell, owners, by mesne conveyances, of a one-half interest in the oil and gas underlying a tract of 44 acres, brought the present suit against McCall Drilling Company, a corporation (successor to Hope Natural Gas Company’s leasehold rights in three tracts, totalling 158 acres), T. S. Cunningham, and others, to require the defendant, McCall Drilling Company, to deliver to their credit in the pipe lines a l/7th of the royalty oil produced from two wells, drilled by it subsequent to April 8, 1942, on the leased premises, but outside the 44-acre tract.…