Petroleum Exploration Corporation v. Hensley

SIMS, Judge.

Appellee, Ernest L. Hensley, recovered judgment against appellant, Petroleum Exploration Corporation, of $3,810.40 for his interest in gas 'produced from a well the company drilled on 111 acres of land in Clay County in which he owned an undivided ¾2 interest at the time the well was drilled. Appellee subsequently acquired an additional %2 undivided interest in the land. There are but two questions involved on the company’s appeal: 1. The measure of ap-pellee’s damage; 2. the amount of gas the well produced.

On March 3, 1941, the company took an oil and gas lease from the widow and…