GULF OIL CORPORATION v. DEESE

1 Div. 861.

153 So.2d 614 (1963)

GULF OIL CORPORATION et al. v. G. H. DEESE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 9, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. C. Richmond and Wm. R. Harris, Jackson, Miss., and Sam. W. Pipes, III, Lyons, Pipes & Cook, Mobile, for appellants.

Vincent F. Kilborn and Benjamin H. Kilborn, Mobile, for appellee.


GOODWYN, Justice.

Action of trespass quare clausum fregit brought by appellee, G. H. Deese, against appellants, Gulf Oil Corporation, et al., to recover damages for injury to the surface of land owned by Deese in the Citronelle Oil Field, allegedly resulting from the construction and operation by Gulf of an oil well on adjacent land. Gulf, at the time, held a lease of the oil under both parcels. The appeal is from a judgment rendered on a jury verdict in favor of...

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