Court of Appeals of Texas July 16, 1964, No. 69 (Alvord v. Tenneco Corp.)

SELLERS, Justice.

On March 7, 1941, Natural Gas Production Company, Inc., was the owner of eight separate oil and gas leases located in Harrison and Panola Counties. On this date *359there were on these leases sixteen producing oil wells, one of which was producing from a depth of 4,704 feet. This was the deepest well producing at the time.