Humble Oil & Refining Company v. West

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that ownership of land in fee simple includes not only the surface and mineral estates but also “the matrix of the underlying earth, i.e., the reservoir storage space”
• characterizing the surface owner’s interest as ownership of the “reservoir storage space”
• “[T]his Court has 23 led the way in conciliating conflicts between owners of the surface and of the mineral rights, and in requiring reasonable accommodations between them.”
• discussing lessee’s burden when it injects non-native substances into stratum
• on severance from realty, oil and gas becomes personal property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).