Shell Oil Company v. Mahler

RENFRO, Justice.

Plaintiff Mahler recovered a judgment .against defendant Shell Oil Company for the loss of six cows.

Plaintiff was holder of a grazing lease on one hundred acres of land owned by a Mrs. Carson.

Defendant owned an oil and gas lease and had two oil wells on the same land. Carson No. 1 was still producing as of April, 1963; Carson No. 2 was not.

On the morning of April 27, plaintiff found six of his cows dead, laying in a row over a sizzling wire between two poles ■owned by defendant, one pole being near Carson No. 2.

The jury found that the act of defendant in leaving the power line…