Deep Rock Oil Corp. v. Bilby

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of plaintiffs, in an action brought to recover damages for defendant’s alleged failure to drill a second offset oil well on a 40-acre tract in which plaintiffs owned an undivided 25-acre interest, resulting in damage-to plaintiffs by drainage of oil from under their lands. A jury was waived, the cause tried to the court, and judgment rendered against defendant for $3,000.

On May 28, 1943, defendant completed a well known as Price No. 1 on a 40-acre tract adjoining plaintiffs’ land on the west. Defendant owned all the leases surrounding…