Colpitt v. Smith

This is an action to recover damages to land caused .by the escaping of salt water from a gas. well operated by the defendant upon land owned by- the plaintiff. The action was brought in the common pleas court of Tulsa county, was tried to a jury and resulted in a verdict in the sum of $527 in favor of the plaintiff.

The only question raised and presented by the brief of the plaintiff in error goes to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict.

The evidence shows that the well was drilled near the northeast corner of a 20-acre tract of land, being one-eighth of a mile wide and…