J. M. Young v. Ethyl Corporation

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• concluding that the defendants' forcible removal of brine-a primarily non-fugacious mineral-from beneath Young's land, where the brine would not have migrated to defendants' wells without the exertion of force, constituted an actionable trespass
• concluding that a landowner had a vested existing property right in the brominated salt water underlying his land, and that a party’s act of forcibly removing the solution by means of injection and production wells constituted an actionable trespass
• concluding that a landowner had a vested existing property right in the brominated salt water underlying his land and that a party’s act of forcibly removing the solution by means of injection and production wells constituted an actionable trespass
• stating that the rule of capture is traditionally applied where the drainage of minerals \occurs as the inevitable result of the tapping of a common reservoir.\ (citation omitted)
• and on appeal from remand as to a determination of damages 581 F. 2d 715 [1978]
• discussing fugacious and nonfugacious brine

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