SHELL PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. MOORE

No. 5893.

46 F.2d 959 (1931)

SHELL PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. MOORE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 16, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cyrus S. Gentry, of Houston, Tex. (Thompson, Mitchell, Thompson & Young and Cyrus S. Gentry, all of Houston, Tex., on the brief), for appellant.

Geo. E. Holland, of Beaumont, Tex., for appellee.

Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.


WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by the appellee against the appellant. The appellee's amended petition, after alleging his ownership of described land in Cameron parish, La., and the existence of methods of discovering evidences of oil beneath the surface of land by going upon the land, setting up machines thereon, burying beneath the surface charges of dynamite, or other explosives, and exploding the same, with the result that vibrations so caused would...

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