Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Puckett’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1985
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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“Appellant insists that the right conveyed to appellees `of mining and operating for oil and gas' on the land did not pass to them a right to resort to seismographs as a means of determining whether there was oil or gas thereon or not; and that, owning no right to resort to seismographs, appellees should not have been heard to complain because appellant resorted to them for such a purpose, if it did. We think a right to prospect for oil and gas was incidental to the right conveyed to appellees to mine and operate for same on the land, and are inclined to think that in prospecting for such minerals appellees had a right to resort to seismographs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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