The Superior Oil Co. v. Magee

227 Miss. 868 (1956)

87 So.2d 280

THE SUPERIOR OIL COMPANY

v.

MAGEE, et al.

No. 40016.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 7, 1956.

Wells, Thomas & Wells, Jackson; Murray Christian, W.B. Wagner, Houston, Texas, for appellant.

Hall & Callender, Columbia; Livingston & Livingston, Prentiss, for appellees.

ETHRIDGE, J.

This is another and perhaps the final case involving gas units in the Gwinville Field in Jefferson Davis County. The controversy is over the production of natural gas from a tract of 4.65 acres in Unit No. 50. Appellee Mabelle Griffith Magee was the owner of the land when on May 14, 1940, she…