Shreveport-El Dorado Pipe Line Co. v. Bennett

The plaintiffs brought suit in the Ouachita Circuit Court, alleging that Henry C. Cates was the owner of the south half of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 33, township 18 south, range 15 west, Union County, Arkansas, which was subject to an oil and gas lease in favor of the Gf. S. & Gf. Corporation; that Cates was the owner of one-eighth royalty interest in and to the oil produced and severed from said tract of land; that the Gf. S. & Gf. Corporation, from November 21 to March 22, sold and delivered to the defendant numbers of barrels of oil for the total price of…