Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Martin

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

Appellees Mabel W. Martin, et al1 filed this action to recover damages for drainage and waste alleged to have been committed by Humble to appellees’ one-thirtieth undivided interest in a vested remainder in Berkely Plantation on which appellant had drilled a number of oil wells and had captured and removed large quantities of oil. The court below entered judgment in favor of appellee, finding that she was the owner of the one-thirtieth vested interest in Berkely as remainderman, that the trustees under the will of appellee’s mother Anna S. C. Martin, who died December…