EDWARDS v. LACHMAN

No. 44435.

534 P.2d 670 (1974)

L. A. EDWARDS, Jr., an Individual, et al., Appellees, v. Charles R. LACHMAN et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied May 6, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee B. Thompson, Cantrell, Douglass, Thompson & Wilson, Oklahoma City, Patrick D. Sullivan, Leach, Sullivan, Sullivan & Green, Duncan, Earl A. Brown, Jr., Anderson, Brown, Orn, Pressler & Jones, Houston, Tex., for appellees, L.A. Edwards, Jr., and others.

George E. Erickson Jr., Cosgrove, Webb & Oman, Topeka, Kan., John S. Miller, Tulsa, for Amerada Hess Corp.

Robert J. Emery, Lytle, Soule & Emery, Oklahoma City, George N. Otey, Otey & Evans, Ardmore, J.D. DeBois and O.L. Peck Jr., DeBois & Peck, Duncan, for appellants.


IRWIN, Justice:

Appellants, herein referred to as defendants, drilled an oil and gas well at such an angle of deviation from the vertical that it bottomed in and produced hydrocarbons from formations underlying adjacent property. The drilling of this well into the adjacent property constituted a sub-surface trespass.

Defendants owned the working interest in the trespassing well and this well's surface location is...

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