Ottis v. Haas

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is a directed verdict case. Plaintiffs, Edward J. Ottis and wife, Jane, are surface owners of a tract of land that is subject to an oil and gas lease. They brought suit against the lessee, Charles F. Haas, seeking an injunction to prohibit the defendant from installing a set of tank batteries upon plaintiffs’ land and in the alternative, damages to their land caused by the particular location of the tank batteries. At the close of the plaintiffs’ case in chief the trial court granted defendant’s motion for instructed verdict. Plaintiffs perfected their appeal to…