Porter v. Arkansas Western Gas Co.

Lyle Brown, Justice.

This action was commenced by Arkansas Western Gas Company as a bill in interpleader following the successful completion of a gas well in Crawford County near the Arkansas River. All the landowners in the area were joined as defendants. The dispute as to ownership is primarily between the Cooks and the Humphreys, the riparian owners on the south or Sebastian County side of the river, and the appellants, who are the landowners on the north or Crawford County side. At the point in question the river forms, roughly, the shape of a horseshoe. From 1827 until 1961 the river…