Mid-Co Gasoline Co. v. Back

In this action the defendant - in error, hereinafter called the plaintiff, recovered a judgment in the court below against the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, for damages to his land, resulting from- the carelessness and negligence of the defendant in permitting crude petroleum to escape and overflow the lands, of the plaintiff.

For reversal, the plaintiff in error has assigned several specifications of error, only three of which we will consider, for the reason that the others are not presented in the brief of plaintiff in error and have been abandoned.

it is first…