Crosson v. Lion Oil Refining Company

Hart, J.,

(after stating the facts). The record shows that the pipe line of the plaintiff was broken in some unaccountable way, and the crude oil therein contained flowed off the right-of-way of the plaintiff down a small watercourse on the land occupied and controlled by the defendants, and part of the crude oil was diverted from the watercourse into a mud or oil pit on the land controlled by the defendants.

It is the claim of the defendants that they acquired title to the oil which escaped from the pipe line of the plaintiff and flowed on the land controlled by them.

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