State v. Standard Oil Co.

As I understand it, there never was any doubt in the minds of the members of the court that the lands from which the oil in dispute was produced were not embraced within the terms of the lease executed by the Caddo levee board to the Pure Oil Producing Company, and that it never was intended that they should be.

It may be true, as stated in the majority opinion, that the intention of the parties was to include in the lease all the lands owned by the levee board in sections 3 and 4 and not theretofore disposed of by it. But since the 55 acres upon which the wells here were drilled were already…