Johnson Oil Refining Co. v. Carnes

The defendant, plaintiff in error, operated an oil refinery. The plaintiffs were lessees of land below the refinery. A creek ran near tlie refinery and down through the land leased by plaintiffs. Plaintiffs recovered a judgment in the trial court upon evidence tending to prove that' the defendant permitted certain oil refuse and other deleterious substances to escape from its refinery into the creek and that thereafter heavy rains caused the creek to overflow and deposit said substances upon and damaging their growing crops. This judgment was rendered upon a verdict which was the result of a…