Owen-Osage Oil & Gas Co. v. Long

Opinion by

DICKSON, G.

The parties will be referred to in this opinion as plaintiff and defendant as they were designated in the trial court.

This action was commenced by the plaintiff to recover damages alleged to have resulted by reason of salt water escaping from the defendant’s oil wells and flowing down a natural water course running through the plaintiff’s pasture, farm, and feed lot.

The substantial averments of the petition are that during the year 1919 the defendant was engaged in the business of prospecting, drilling for and producing oil in Osage county, Olcla., that the defendant was…