Continental Oil Co. v. Tigner

This is an action to recover damages to growing crops allegedly caused by oil and salt water flowing from defendants’ leases and deposited on plaintiff’s farm by spring flood waters from a stream. Verdict and judgment were for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.

Defendants complain of certain evidence pertaining to settlements made and compromises offered by them on other claims arising out of the pollution of the stream in question on prior occasions, and other testimony relating to the fact of pollution of the same stream some two years prior to the alleged damage in the instant case.

Witnesses…