Twin State Oil Co. v. Long

CÜLLISON, Y. C. J.

This is a suit to recover damages for injury to plaintiff’s orchard. Plaintiff owned a tract of land on which was located an orchard of peach and apple trees. A ravine ran through the orchard and the trees in question were local od on the slopes leading down to the ravine. Plaintiff introduced testimony showing that the defendant drilled an oil and gas well some distance south of plaintiff’s orchard; that the well produced some gas and salt water for a few days, causing the salt water to be sprayed into the air and carried by the air down on plaintiff’s orchard, killing the…