Budd v. Ethyl Corporation

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This case involves a salt-water recycling operation by which the appellees are renjoving salt water from the earth, extracting certain valuable minerals therefrom, and then returning the salt water to the earth. The appellant, as the owner of a mineral interest and a fractional leasehold interest in the vicinity, brought this suit to require the appellees to account to him for his proportionate share of the profits accruing from the recycling process. This appeal is from an order sustaining a demurrer to the appellant’s complaint and dismissing it. The question is…