Donnell v. Gray

McCALEB, Justice.

This contest involves the ownership of certain oil well equipment, consisting of two five-hundred barrel steel oil tanks, one two-hundred barrel gun barrel and one Ideco pumping unit, of a total value of $1200. The property was purchased by plaintiff on February 21st 1947 from one A. Paul Gilbert, an oil operator, who had left it on the land of defendant during 1946 when an oil well, which he had drilled under a lease with defendant, was abandoned.

Defendant resisted the demand on the ground that he acquired ownership of the property in 1946, when Gilbert abandoned the oil…