Rain v. Balph

HUNT, Justice.

The plaintiff in error, Clara A. Rain, instituted this action in the District Court of Pottawatomie County against Charles F. Balph for alleged injuries to twenty acres of land caused by discharging salt water and other deleterious substances from an oil well into a bar ditch on the south side of the section line opposite the house located on plaintiff’s land north of the section line which runs east and west between plaintiff’s land and defendant’s oil well. Plaintiff’s petition is in part as follows:

“(8) That said substances were emptied into said bar pits for such a time and…