Pure Torpedo Corp. v. Nation

The appellant, the Pure Torpedo Corporation, plaintiff below, brought an action on an account stated to recover $914 against the appellee, Ben H. Nation, defendant and counterclaimant below. The defendant counterclaimed and alleged that the plaintiff was guilty of negligence in the shooting of an oil well owned by the defendant in that the shot was improperly placed by plaintiff 130 feet above the lower part of defendant’s well; that when the shot was exploded it destroyed the lower part of the well, damaging it and causing the well to be destroyed, whereby he sustained damages of $17,556.42.…