Reading & Bates Offshore Drilling Co. v. Jergenson

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Freddie Jergenson and wife sued Reading & Bates Offshore Drilling Company for damages to a 16.1 acre tract of land upon which they operated a cattle feeding business. They also sued for $750.00 which they alleged the defendant agreed to pay them for signing an agreement author izing an increase in the size of drilling units. Plaintiffs alleged defendant’s lease contained a provision that no well should be drilled within 200 feet of a barn; that over plaintiffs’ protest, defendant drilled an oil well within less than 200 feet of their barn and in the edge of their…