Baker v. Davis

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

In August, 1936, O. E. Beck executed an oil and gas lease in the usual form on land owned by him in Shackelford County to Owens-Snebold Oil Corporation. Thereafter C. A. Baker and others became the owners of said lease upon which there was, among others, a producing oil well known as No. 6, which was operated by an under-slung pump jack. After Baker and others became the owners of said lease and while they were exercising their rights under said lease, and pumping well No. 6 with an underslung pump jack, the operation of which was dangerous to cattle grazing there,…