Martin v. British American Oil Producing Co.

Plaintiff in error commenced this action in the district court of Oklahoma county to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the acts of defendants in constructing a pipe line from the north Oklahoma City oil field to a point in the North Canadian river near the land of plaintiff and discharging through said pipe line large quantities of drilling mud, sediment, and other substances from slush pits and depositing same in the bed or channel of said river so as to form a dam in the bed of said river near the land of plaintiff and thus back the water in the channel of the river, where it…