Franklin v. Arkansas Fuel Oil Co.

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff, owner of various tracts ■of land in Richland Parish aggregating 7,566.89 acres, is seeking to recover damages in the sum of $189,172.25 ($25 per acre) from the defendant company for its alleged illegal trespass upon his property and upon the roads traversing and bordering his land, with the object of conducting geophysical explorations for mineral purposes, and for the alleged dissemination of the information thereby secured, to plaintiff’s injury. The defendant specifically denied any trespass, or that its acts caused damage to the plaintiff; but in any…