Wilcox Oil Company v. Lawson

JOHNSON, Chief Justice.

Parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

The essential facts are that plaintiffs under three separate causes of action sued defendant for damages for the loss of alfalfa hay and pasture land allegedly caused by the wanton and negligent drilling of oil wells on their premises and in the digging of overlarge and unnecessary slush pits and tank holes, and the unnecessary dragging of the machinery over their field of alfalfa, and the establishment and use of unnecessary roads over said premises, all of which, under the first cause allegedly caused…