Poe v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.

This is a suit, first, fór the value of gasoline under the terms and provisions of a lease contract for development of a tract of land for oil and gas, and, second, for damages occasioned by drainage of the tract of land in question, under the particular terms of the lease contract.

Appellant here, J. N. Poe, was plaintiff below and the Humble Oil & Refining Company was defendant. Plaintiff alleged that he was the owner of forty-nine eightieths of the casing-head gasoline in and under a certain tract of land, which he described, and sued in his first count for the entire value of the gasoline…