Gulf Refining Co. v. Davis

This is a suit by Malcolm Davis against Gulf Refining Company, a corporation, to recover for damages to his land and timber on account of the seepage and overflow from a salt-water pit, and the construction of a larger pit, on land of which he is the surface owner. There was a verdict and judgment for $1,500, and the Company appealed.

The declaration alleged that' the plaintiff is the owner of 40 acres of land, as therein described, on which the defendant maintained a salt-water pit in connection with its production of natural gas; that salt-water seeped out and overflowed onto his land,…