Tenneco Oil Company v. Allen

LAVENDER, Justice:

This appeal, by the Sac and Fox Prue Sand Unit (a body politic and corporate organized, and created, under the 1951 statutes now appearing as 52 O.S.1971, §§ 287.1 through 287.15) and Tenneco Oil Company, involves a jury verdict, and judgment based thereon, against them as the defendants in an action by the defendant in error, Clyde Allen, for damages allegedly sustained by him as the owner of certain land included in the unit-area of the Sac and Fox Prue Sand Unit.

By virtue of a deed dated February 27, 1967, the plaintiff became the owner of the Southeast Quarter of Section…