McCoy v. Arkansas Natural Gas Co.

The plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment dismissing their suit on an exception of no cause or right. of action. There are twenty-one plaintiffs, alleging that they are owners of lands in the Richland parish gas field, and that they own all of the lands within a mile from a tract of 93 acres on which the defendant, Arkansas Natural Gas Company, had an oil and gas lease in January, 1928. They allege that the defendant completed the drilling of a gas well on the 93 acres of land on the 30th of January, 1928, and, because of negligence on the part of the defendant, the gas pressure broke the…