Larco Drilling Corp. v. Lee

GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice.

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lee sued Larco Drilling Corporation and its foreman, Willie Hopkins, in the Circuit Court of Forrest County for damages alleged to have resulted from the drilling of a gas well on plaintiffs’ land. The trial resulted in a jury verdict for plaintiffs in the sum of $2,500. Judgment was entered accordingly, and defendants appealed.

The declaration alleged that defendants erected a drilling rig and drilled a gas well on plaintiffs’ property and in the drilling process Larco negligently destroyed a building site where plaintiffs proposed to build a…