State v. Standard Oil Co.

A majority of the members of the court have come to the conclusion that the judgment of the district court, rejecting the state's demand, is correct.

The suit was for $130,378.78, alleged to be the value of seven-eighths of the oil taken from three wells that were drilled and operated by the Pure Oil Company on land that belonged to the Caddo levee board when the wells were drilled and when the oil was produced. The land is on the shore of Ferry Lake, below or inside of the Gulf level elevation of 173.09 feet, established by the Kidder survey approved in 1915. As Ferry Lake was a navigable…