Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Co. v. Rainwater

GRISSOM, Justice.

W. O. Rainwater sued the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company in a Justice Court of Jones County for $190 damages. In substance, Rainwater alleged the company’s seismograph crew dug a hole about 46 feet deep on a tract of land (where it had a right to be), and about 150 feet from Rainwater’s cistern located upon the adjoining premises, and set off a heavy charge of explosives in the hole causing a vibration which broke the plastered walls of the cistern, resulting in the loss of’the water stored in the cistern and requiring its repair. Judgment in the Justice Court was…