Humphreys Oil Co. v. Tatum

ROSTER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by appellees, Joe Will Tatum and his wife, Lizzie Tatum, and L. C. Puckett and G. Stratton, against the Humphreys Oil Company and the Pure Oil Company, appellants, to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the failure of appellants to properly develop, and to protect from drainage by other wells, in close proximity, some 25 acres of land in Limestone county, Tex., in what is known as the Mexia oil field, to which Tatum and his wife held the fee-simple title. There was a verdict in favor of appellees in the sum of $10,000, on which judgment…