H. F. Wilcox Oil & Gas Co. v. Murphy

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant in error, herein referred to as plaintiff, for damages alleged to have been sustained as a result of salt water and general oil field pollution of a stream known as Little Deep Fork river.

The basis of plaintiff’s claim is that during the year 1933, said stream overflowed several times whereby salt water and oil were carried over and deposited upon the land where plaintiff had planted and had growing certain crops, corn, oats, cotton, whereby certain of his said crops were destroyed and others injured, and the fertility of the soil was so…