Denver Producing & Refining Co. v. Meeker

This action was brought by plaintiffs, Grover C. Meeker and Zoe Marie Meeker, against Denver Producing & Refining Company, for damages arising out of the operations by defendant under an oil and gas lease upon the land of plaintiffs. From a verdict of the jury and judgment in favor of plaintiffs, in the sum of $1,045, defendant appeals.

Plaintiffs’ petition alleged an unreasonable use of the surface by the building of unnecessary roads, and the driving of heavily loaded vehicles across the land, which was operated by plaintiffs as a dairy farm; injury to fences by the unnecessary cutting and…