Cooperative Refinery Association v. Young

DAVISON, Justice.

This is an appeal by Cooperative Refining: Association (defendant below) from a money judgment rendered on jury verdict against it in favor of Edna Young et al‘ (plaintiffs below). The parties will be referred to by name or as they appeared below.

The circumstances are that ten brothers- and sisters each own an undivided 1/10' interest in a 40 acre tract of land in McClain County, Oklahoma, as tenants in common. In February, 1955, Cooperative acquired a lease thereon for oil and gas purposes and drilled a well on the property. Production from the well ceased in 1959 and…