Court Opinion

ID: 9829714
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:33:11.275028+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:04.707340
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Defendant contends that in no event are plaintiffs entitled to recover at a higher rate than 50‡ per barrel for the illegal oil so produced, because the jury found the average reasonable cash market value of illegally produced or “hot” oil to be 50‡ per barrel. We do not sustain this contention. Sharp et al. v. Beacon Oil & Refining Co. et al., Tex.Civ.App., 108 S.W.2d 870. In our original opinion we concluded that the market value of .this illegally produced oil was $1 per barrel. The oil was produced from the same wells and at the same time. Defendant sold all the legally produced oil at $1 per barrel. The posted price of all legally produced oil was $1, and there is no evidence of any other price prevailing in the district during this period of time involved.
However, the oil produced was chargeable with a production and pipe-line tax of 2¾6⅜ per barrel which was not deducted in our former computation. To this extent the former judgment is modified so as to read that of and from the defendant Ortiz Oil Company, a corporation, plaintiff Adolph A. Geyer recover the balance due in the sum of $3,461.17; likewise Will Thompson the sum of $4,894.74; Augusta Nichols the sum of $3,603.75; Mrs. J. A. Ferguson the sum of $3,603.75; and R. G. Storey the sum of $2,586.59.
With this modification, the motion for rehearing is respectfully overruled.