Legal Opinion
Republic Natural Gas Company v. Melson
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided September 28, 1954No. 36101PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DAVISON, Justice.
This is an action, brought by the plaintiff, Mark L. Melson, the agricultural lessee of a 160-acre tract of land in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, against the defendant, Republic Natural Gas Company, the oil and gas lessee of the same tract of land, to recover for the damages done by the latter to plaintiff’s 1951 crop. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.
About half of said 160 acres was in cultivation, and in 1951, different kinds of feed ■crops were planted thereon. During that year, the defendant drilled a number of oil and gas wells thereon and…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Bucktrot v. PartridgeSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1928
- Render v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1934
- Wilhite v. BrinSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1936
- Graf Packing Co. v. PelphreySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1935
- John A. Brown Co. v. ClauseSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1951
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3Cited by1 opinion
- MIKEL DRILLING COMPANY v. DunkinSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1957