TIDEWATER OIL COMPANY v. JACKSON

No. 6944.

320 F.2d 157 (1963)

TIDEWATER OIL COMPANY, Appellant, v. George E. JACKSON and Karl B. Jackson, doing business in partnership as Jackson Brothers, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 18, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Hart, Austin, Tex., and Richard Jones, Wichita, Kan., for appellant.

Robert Martin, Wichita, Kan., for appellees.

Before MURRAH, Chief Judge, and PICKETT and LEWIS, Circuit Judges.


MURRAH, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in a diversity suit for damages, brought by a Kansas oil and gas leaseholder against an adjoining leaseholder, for the wrongful water flooding of his lease. Water flooding is a legally and scientifically accepted method of producing oil and gas by the introduction of foreign water into an oil bearing formation, usually after primary production methods are no longer profitable. Generally, the...

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