Gray v. Cameron

Grieein Smith, Chief Justice.

In 1944 A. A. Cameron leased from R. E. Thomas and his wife 35 acres on the north edge of the Haynesville oil field in Columbia county. When Thomas died in 1945 his wife acquired by will the interest her husband had in the property. She married again and is now Martha Gray, the appellant.

In December, 1942, the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission limited drilling in this field to a well to eighty acres, to be within 100 feet of the center of a north-south drilling unit. To meet this requirement as to some of the land affected by leases in litigation here it was…