IVEY v. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO.

No. 79.

36 F.Supp. 811 (1941)

IVEY v. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO.

District Court, S. D. Texas, Corpus Christi Division.

January 7, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sewell, Taylor, Morris & Connally and W. J. Knight, all of Houston, Tex., McCraw & Holt, of Dallas, Tex., Young & Easterling, of Corpus Christi, Tex., and James A. Stanford, of Austin, Tex., for plaintiff.

R. K. Batten, of Houston, Tex., John E. Lyle, of Corpus Christi, Tex., and T. L. Dyer, of Austin, Tex., for defendant.


ALLRED, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a resident citizen of Texas and the owner of an 800-acre farm in San Patricio County, Texas, sued defendant, a foreign corporation, for damages to the surface of his land and for injuries to the oil and gas bearing sands under his land.

Defendant owns an oil and gas lease, with four producing wells, on 500 acres of plaintiff's farm.

In July, 1938, one Harlan Grimes owned and operated a 40-acre lease on the Coggin...

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