Gypsy Oil Co. v. Brightwell

E. C. Brightwell and R. R. Canary each separately sued the defendant, Gypsy Oil Company, for damages to their crops in the year 1932, and plaintiff Canary also sued for damages to the productiveness of his leasehold, all such damages alleged to have been due to the negligence of the defendant and the violation by it of the state laws, in permitting salt water, crude oil, and other base sediment to flow from adjoining lands on which defendant was carrying on oil and gas mining operations, said lands being separate and apart from, but abutting on, the west the tract of land on which said…