Warfield Natural Gas Co. v. Allen

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Reversing.

The appellees, J. H. Allen and Octavia Combs, are •the owners of the oil and gas'in a certain 200 acres in Floyd county, and the appellant, Warfield Natural Gas-Company, is the lessee by assignment. After setting up the relation of the parties and what plaintiffs regarded as the defendant’s duties under the terms of the lease, the petition charges that the defendant negligently, unsldllfully, and with wanton disregard of the r plaintiffs’ rights permitted a well which it was drilling, to become flooded with water before the drilling had'…