Sinclair Oil & Gas Co. v. Crane

J. W. Crane and Ida Crane instituted this action in the district, court of Noble county against Sinclair Oil & Gas Company et al., to recover damages for permanent injury to their land by reason of defendants permitting oil and salt water to escape from their leases. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

The facts are the plaintiffs owned and operated the northwest quarter of section 2, township 21 north, range 2 east in Noble county, Okla., as a farm home, which was situated near the (Black? Bear river, and said companies operated oil and gas leases that drained…