Kewanee Oil & Gas Co. v. Mosshamer

YAUGHT, District Judge.

The appellee, as plaintiff below, recovered a judgment against the defendant (appellant) based upon damages to plaintiff’s cattle caused by the said cattle drinking salt water which defendant had permitted to escape from an oil well, and by seepage from the tank into which salt water was piped; said salt water being permitted to flow over plaintiff’s pasture and into a stream and pool used by the plaintiff to provide drinking water for his cattle, some of said cattle dying and many becoming ill and diseased. The appellant relies upon five assignments of error: (1) That…