Joe Colby and Walter Colby v. Cities Service Oil Company, a Delaware Corporation, and Sinclair Oil & Gas Company, a Maine Corporation

PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs brought this action to recover damages to the value of their farm lands allegedly caused by the defendants in allowing salt water, resulting from the operation of oil wells, to pollute the water underlying their lands. This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendants.

The complaint alleges that plaintiffs’ farm is located in Osage County, Oklahoma, adjacent to the south bank of the Arkansas River, about seven miles east of Ponca City, Oklahoma; that during the year 1934 defendants drilled an oil well on plaintiffs’ land; that in the operation…