Barnes v. Winona Oil Co.

Citations

• 200 P. 985
• 83 Okla. 253
• 1921 OK 159
• 23 A.L.R. 189
• 1921 Okla. LEXIS 350

Syllabus

<p>(Syllabus.)</p> <p>Oil and Gas — Production Under Invalid Lease — Action by Landlord for Accounting — Measure of Recovery.</p> <p>Where a person in good faith enters into peaceable possession of land upon which he owns an oil and gas lease and produces oil and gas therefrom, and thereafter said lease is declared void or invalid, the measure of damages to the landlord in an action for an accounting for the oil and gas produced from said premises by the lessee is the value of the oil at the surface or in pipe line or tanks wherever the same may be, less the reasonable cost of producing the same.</p>