Crawford v. Yeatts

WALTER, Justice.

Mrs. Madge E. Yeatts recovered a judgment against William Crawford and associates for $17,064.00 for permanent damage to her farm allegedly caused by the negligent disposal of salt water. The parties will be designated as they were in the trial court. The defendants have appealed.

The jury found that salt water from defendants’ pit penetrated the sub-surface strata and polluted plaintiff’s property which was negligence and a proximate cause of the salt water pollution of plaintiff’s property; that defendants failed to seal the pit so as to prevent the salt water from…