Independent Oil & Gas Co. v. Jackson

This is a salt water pollution case brought by J. F. Jackson against the Independent Oil & Gas Company in the Hominy division of the county court of Osage county'.

Plaintiff alleges that he and J. F. Rader were the joint owners of a farming and grazing lease in said county; that there was located thereon a fresh water pond which was used by them for watering their stock; that defendant was the owner of an oil and gas lease on adjacent premises on which there were located several producing oil wells; that defendant permitted salt water to escape from these wells and flow into said pond and over…