Warren Petroleum Corp. v. Helms

This action was brought by plaintiff, Ray Helms, against Warren Petroleum Corporation to recover damages to plaintiff’s livestock alleged to be the result of their drinking crude oil deposited on the land leased for agricultural purposes by plaintiff, it being alleged that the crude oil was blown from a drip in defendant’s pipe line and permitted to remain on the land where plaintiff’s cattle had access to it, and that they drank it and were thereby injured. Defendant answered by general denial, admitted that the pipe line belonged to them, alleged that the livestock did not drink the oil and…