Davis v. Consolidated Oil & Gas, Inc.

ROONEY, Justice, Retired.

Appellants are engaged in ranching and farming operations about seven miles east of Greybull. Appellees1 were involved in drilling, plugging and abandoning of an oil and gas well located about one mile from appellants' properties. The well was drilled over 2,900 feet into the Madison Formation where it encountered pressurized water. Contending that failure to properly plug and abandon the well resulted in salty seepage water damaging their lands, appellants filed this action with claims of negligence, trespass and nuisance, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional…