Devonian Oil Corporation Ration v. Hurt

Plaintiff, E. E. Hurt, sued the Devonian Oil Company in the district court of Okmulgee county for damages to his land, crops, and stock arising from the pollution of a stream by salt water and oil. The cause was tried to a jury and a verdict rendered in favor of plaintiff for $1,205. From a judgment on the verdict, defendant appeals. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

Plaintiff charges in his petition that defendant permitted certain salt water and oil from oil wells operated by it to flow into a creek known as Euchee creek; that said creek flowed through the…