Miller v. Crown Central Petroleum Corporation

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

The appellees assert right in this case under oil and gas leases on two adjoining tracts executed before J. M. Miller and wife purchased the surface only of said tracts. Oil was produced from said land and adjacent tracts which comprise the Sojourner Field. After wells on the Miller land and throughout said field had produced oil for a few years, production declined sharply and it 'became necessary, in order to recover the maximum amount of oil, to institute a water flooding program for said field. This was done by agreement of all the owners of minerals and royalty,…