REPUBLIC NATURAL GAS COMPANY v. MELSON

No. 36101.

274 P.2d 543 (1954)

REPUBLIC NATURAL GAS COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Plaintiff in Error, v. Mark L. MELSON, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

September 28, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter G. Wilson, Chandler, for plaintiff in error.

P.D. Erwin, Chandler, for defendant in error.


DAVISON, Justice.

This is an action, brought by the plaintiff, Mark L. Melson, the agricultural lessee of a 160-acre tract of land in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, against the defendant, Republic Natural Gas Company, the oil and gas lessee of the same tract of land, to recover for the damages done by the latter to plaintiff's 1951 crop. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

About half of said 160 acres was in cultivation, and in...

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