Geyer v. Ortiz Oil Co.

Adolph A. Geyer, Will Thompson, Mrs. J. A. Ferguson, Augusta Nichols, and R. G. Storey, the owners of 9/80, 1/6, 1/8, 1/8, and 93/1040, respectively, of the oil and gas royalty interest under a leasehold estate called the Tolliver lease in the Juan Zimines Survey in Rusk County, sued the Ortiz Oil Company, the owner and operator of the 7/8 leasehold estate, for their proportional part of the market value of 303,899 barrels of crude oil which they allege the defendant produced, sold and converted to its own use from the lease (during December 1933 through 1934, and in April 1935) in excess of…