Legal Opinion
Shannon v. Shaffer Oil & Refining Co.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 13, 1931No. 292PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McDERMOTT, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff (appellant) owned an eighty-acre tract of land in Oklahoma, upon which defendants held an oil and gas lease. Four wells were drilled thereon in 1925 and 1926 in an effort to produce oil. The land was underlain, in part at least, with two oil and gas bearing sands, the upper being known as the “Bartlesville” and the lower as the “Wilcox.” The Wilcox sand was supposedly the more valuable, and the wells were drilled through the Bartlesville sand to get to the Wilcox. This action is for damages for the value of gas which plaintiff alleges the defendants…
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