Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Co. v. Parker Oil Co.

ODOM, Justice.

Plaintiff, alleging that it was in physical possession of a narrow strip of land, 25 feet wide and 726 feet long, in the Rodessa oil field, brought this suit against defendant to protect its possession. It is alleged that the strip of land was part of a larger tract which it held under an oil and gas lease from the Rodessa Oil & Land Company, dated February 7, 1934, and that it had taken physical possession of the leased tract by drilling thereon several producing oil wells,

In its original petition, plaintiff alleged that defendant had gone upon this narrow strip of land,…