Coffindaffer v. Hope Natural Gas Co.

Williams, Judge:

The Hope Natural Gas Company was granted this writ of error to a judgment for $104.25, recovered against it in an action for damages caused to plaintiffs’ lands by building a road over it for the purpose of hauling material for a rig and drilling machinery and appliances, preparatory to drilling an oil or gas well thereon. After completing the road and hauling its material upon the land, but before drilling, defendant decided not to drill at that place, and removed its material off the land.

Plaintiffs own the surface of the land in fee, subject to defendant’s mining rights,…