Walters v. Prairie Oil & Gas Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from -District Court, Okmulgee County; Ernest B. Hughes, Judge. Action by Squire Walters and others against the Prairie Oil & Gas Company and others for damages for pollution of stream. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtKane, J.
This was an action for damages for polluting a stream commenced by the plaintiffs, as riparian landowners, against the defendants, Prairie Oil and Gas Company, Gypsy Oil Company, and Pierce Oil Corporation.
The petition of the plaintiffs alleged, in substance, that the defendants, Prairie Oil & Gas Company, Pierce Oil Corporation, and the Gypsy Oil Company, own and operate separate oil and gas leases bordering upon Graves creek, the stream in question, and that the plaintiffs sustained damage on account of the acts of the defendants in allowing salt water and refuse oil from their oil wells to…
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