Choice v. Texas Co.

ATWELL, District Judge.

Plaintiffs sue for the value of oil alleged to have been converted by defendant. They say it was taken from a fifty-acre tract of land in Gregg county, Tex. They claim that they were tho owners, “in fee simple of all the oil * * * under the tract and parcel of land so situated”; that the defendant, be¡ginning in October, 1931, drilled oil wells on that land and took therefrom 66,631 barrels, “'of the reasonable market value at the time of such taking and conversion of $58,845.83”; that this amount was exclusive of the royalty, for which no claim is made; that such…