Phillips Petroleum Company and Geophysical Services, Inc. v. Elliott F. Cowden

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court, sitting without a jury, awarding; $53,640.00 in damages for trespass to the mineral estates of appel-lees upon a finding that a reflection seismograph survey on. lands in which appellees owned the mineral rights amounted to a trespass as to them, and that the damages awarded represented the market value and also the value to appellants ' of the exploratory right wrongfully appropriated.

' The facts necessary to a decision of the case are not seriously in dispute, except as to the element of damages. As ■to this the…