Legal Opinion
Ellis v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co.
District Court, E.D. Oklahoma
Decided March 31, 1978No. Civ. 76-211PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
MORRIS, Chief Judge.
The principal question in this case has not been decided in Oklahoma and remains undecided in the overwhelming majority of jurisdictions in the United States. The question is: when the oil, gas and other minerals have been severed by conveyance from the fee simple estate in a tract of land, and subsequent to severance natural gas is injected in and under that tract of land as a part of an underground gas storage reservoir, from whom must the injector secure permission to store natural gas?
Plaintiffs, James C. Ellis and Wanda Lou Ellis, his wife, are the…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Rich v. DonegheySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1918
- Lone Star Gas Company v. MurchisonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1962
- Sunray Oil Co. v. Cortez Oil Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1941
- Hammonds v. Central Kentucky Natural Gas Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1934
- Tate v. United Fuel Gas Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1952
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3Cited by18 opinions
- James C. Ellis and Wanda Lou Ellis, His Wife v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1979
- Fram Corp. v. DavisSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1979
- Pomposini v. T.W. Phillips Gas & Oil Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1990
- Anderson v. Beech Aircraft Corp.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1985
- Northern Natural Gas Co. v. Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, L.L.P.Supreme Court of Kansas · 2009
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