Comar Oil Co. v. Hackney

Opinion by

ESTES, C.

Parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court, ■inverse to their order here. Hackney and others had joint and several judgments in February of 1925, against Comar Oil Company and nine other defendant oil companies for $18,500, growing out of the pollution of Bird’s Nest creek, a fresh water creek which flows through the Tonkawa oil fields near the north boundary of Noble county, and into the Salt Fork of the Arkansas river. The action was bottomed on damages to the

farms of plaintiffs through which said creek flowed. Defendants appeal. The record is from…