Andrepont v. Acadia Drilling Co.

ON REHEARING

SUMMERS, Justice.

Nolton Andrepont brings this action for damage to his soybean crop. He is the share crop tenant or farm lessee of Estelle Berdick Murphy who owns the land upon which the crop was grown and a portion of the minerals which underlie the tract. The action, originally brought against Acadia Drilling Co., Inc., and the landowner, was resolved by pleadings and stipulations into a suit between Andrepont and James E. Moncreif and John H. Dillon d/b/a Moncrief and Dillon Petroleum Geological Consultants and Producers Drilling Company, the assignees of an oil and gas lease…