Knupp Oil Corporation v. Lohman

Defendant in error filed his action in the district court of Osage county, praying judgment for damages against plaintiffs in error, alleging that he was in possession of certain lands which he used for grazing purposes and that plaintiffs in error were engaged in oil production and wrongfully and' unlawfully, and in violation of section 7969, C. O. S. 1921, caused and permitted oil, salt water, ana other deleterious substances to escape from their oil mining operations and to pollute a stream running through the pasture of defendant in error; that his cattle drank of the polluted water and…