Petroleum Producers Co. v. Steffens

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

W. Lon Steffens, and others, brought this suit, in Jones County, against Petroleum Producers Company, a private corporation, seeking to recover damages in the total sum of $5,000, for alleged failure of the defendant to drill an offset oil well on a 40-acre lease owned by it in Jones County; and failure to drill four additional wells upon said lease. Plaintiffs were the lessors in said lease. Four producing oil wells were alleged to have been drilled on the lease. It was alleged that there were producing wells on leases adjoining the one in question and within the…