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Constitutional Law - Oil And Gas - Validity Of Well-Spacing Act - Proportionate Sharing Of Proceeds By Owners Of Land In Statutory Drilling Unit, Leonard D. Verdier Jr.
Constitutional Law - Oil And Gas - Validity Of Well-Spacing Act - Proportionate Sharing Of Proceeds By Owners Of Land In Statutory Drilling Unit, Leonard D. Verdier Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Acting under the Well-Spacing Act, the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma divided certain rural oil areas into tenacre drilling units. Plaintiff owned six and one-quarter acres of a drilling unit, and the well, located in the center of the unit, was wholly on his land. The statute provided that each of the various owners of tracts making up a drilling unit should share in the oil royalties in the proportion that the acreage of his tract bore to the total acreage of the drilling unit. Plaintiff sought to recover all the royalty on oil produced from the well, contending that the …