Wiser Oil Company v. Conley

STEWART, Judge.

The Wiser Oil Company and Petroleum Exploration, Inc. appeal from a judgment of the Magoffin Circuit Court holding that they must pay T. J. Conley, the surface owner of a tract of land on which they have a lease for oil and gas, damages for the destruction of the surface and of the coal thereunder, said damages being caused by 'a new method of forcing oil from underground. They also appeal from a supplemental judgment holding that they are not entitled to use the surface of the leased premises for the production of oil from other tracts of land, in the absence of the express…