Smith v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Co.

PONDER, Justice.

The defendant has appealed from a judgment awarding the plaintiffs, the heirs who were substituted on account of the death of the original plaintiff during the pendency of the suit in the lower court, the value of one-sixth interest in oil taken from their land and ordering the defendant to account for the value of such interest in oil taken from the land after August 31, 1948.

The Caddo Lake Oil and Pipe Line Company transferred by deed one acre of land to Edmund K. Smith on November 4, 1904 in the form of a square in the Northeast Corner of the Southwest Quarter of the…