Corrigan v. Shell Petroleum Corp.

BLAIR, Justice.

Appellant sued appellee for the willful taking and conversion of his three-eighths interest in the royalty oil produced by ap-pellee under a certain oil and gas lease, alleging that, contrary to the terms of the lease requiring appellee to deliver the royalty oil to his credit in kind in the pipe line, appellee appropriated it; and that because of the fluctuating value of the oil the measure of damages was the highest intermediate market value of the oil between the time of its conversion and the filing of this suit. Appellee denied that it had willfully taken the oil, and…