Verland Oil & Gas Co. v. Walker

Opinion by

ESTES, C.

Parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court. Plaintiff Walker was in the possession of, and occupying but not under valid lease, about 2,000 acres of Indian grass land in the Osage Nation on which he ranged about 300 steers. Defendant oil company drilled one producing well and was. in process of drilling another under a valid lease for such purpose on the same real estate. Elm creek was near such producing well. During a portion of the year the water flowed in such creek and the remainder of the year it stood in holes from which the plaintiff’s cattle…