Tenneco Oil Company v. Rollans

CHAPMAN, Justice.

The original petition instituting the cause of action that resulted in the judgment appealed from herein was filed on September 17, 1963, by J. R. Rollans, appellee, against Tenneco Oil Company for saltwater damages to land caused by flooding operations of appellant, Tenneco Oil Company. The Fourth Amended Petition upon which appellee went to trial alleged that the overflow of appellant’s salt water emergency pits, surface pipes and broken water lines carrying salt water escaped into Turkey Creek running through appellee’s farm and grazing land, causing damages to the creek…