Shell Petroleum Corporation v. Moore

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by the appellee against the appellant. The appellee’s amended petition,' after alleging his ownership of described land in Cameron parish, La., and the existence of methods of discovering evidences of oil beneath the surface of land by going upon the land, setting up machines thereon, burying beneath the surface charges of dynamite, or other explosives, and exploding the same, with the result that vibrations so caused would he recorded by the machines mentioned, whereby information regarding the presence of oil within the territory covered by the…