Diamond Shamrock Corp. v. Phillips

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• holding that the owner of a mineral estate has the right to go upon the surface estate to drill wells and occupy the surface to the extent that it is reasonably necessary
• holding that the owner of a mineral estate has the right to go upon the surface estate to drill wells and occupy the surface to the extent that it is reasonably necessary
• holding that the owner of a mineral estate has the right to go upon the surface estate to drill wells and occupy the surface to the extent that it is reasonably necessary
• holding that the owner of a mineral estate has a right to reasonable and necessary use of the surface for developing minerals because an “injury necessarily inflicted in the exercise of a lawful right does not create a liability” (quoting 10 Thompson on Real Property § 5561 (1940))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).