Williams v. Columbus Producing Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Case Certified from Circuit Court, Kanawha County. Suit by Stella Williams against the Columbus Producing Company. Demurrer to declaration sustained, and question certified.
1Opinion of the Court
Bitz, Judge:
This suit was bronghtl/io recover damages resulting from the washing away of plaintiff’s house by an extraordinary flood on Cabin Creek in August, 1916. It is charged'in' the declaration that the defendant was operating for oil upon Cabin Creek above the premises owned by the plaintiff, and that as part of its operations it constructed an oil rig and two large tanks in the bed of said creek near the upper end *684of tbe village of Miami, in which the plaintiff’s property was located. It charges in the first count that the construction of this rig and these tanks in the bed of said…
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