Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Co. v. Haynes Drilling Co.

This is an equity case, which, stripped down to the basic question actually involved, presents the simple question of whether or not the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company, defendant in the trial court and plaintiff in error here, has reasonably and properly protected from drainage an 80-acre community oil and gas lease in the Oklahoma City field. Subsequent to the execution of the community lease and subject thereto, the Haynes Drilling Company, plaintiff in the trial court, and defendant in error here, purchased the fee of the northeast 10 acres out of the 80. After the cancellation…