Bourdieu v. Seaboard Oil Corp.

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• finding that the SRHA and MLA do not allow for the development of land adjacent to the miner al estate
• interpreting federal law and finding that the SRHA and MLA do not allow for the development of land adjacent to the mineral estate
• “the use and occupancy ... is in the nature of a continuing trespass, and appellant may recover for such resulting damages as he has sustained within the three years next preceding the filing of this action.
• “lessees have not only a right to extract the oil and gas, but also the appurtenant right to enter 'ahd to use and occupy so much of the surface of the land”
• \The filling of gulches and ravines on appellant's premises with oil and waste products from oil wells outside of appellant's land\ was beyond the mineral lease, which gave the mineral lessee only the right to remove minerals from the appellant's land.

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