Peterson v. Grayce Oil Co.

* Writ of error granted. The Grayce Oil Company and J. H. Cottom, plaintiffs in the trial court, owned an oil lease on about 49 acres of land situated in Wichita county, designated in the record as the Grayce-Cottom lease. Ed Peterson, J. A. McCarty, and F. B. Jackson, Jr., defendants in the trial court, owned another oil lease on about 100 acres of land adjoining that of the plaintiffs, and designated in the record as the McCarty lease. On both of those leases wells had been drilled which produced oil in paying quantities. In order to increase the production of oil from their wells,…