Legal Opinion
Geochemical Surveys v. Dietz
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided October 26, 1960No. 10794PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUGHES, Justice.
Mrs. Effie H. Dietz, for herself and as guardian for her minor daughter, Sidney Ophelia Dietz, and Geral Wayland Dietz, appellees, owners of a one hundred and fifty acre farm in Runnels County, sued Geochemical Surveys, a partnership, to recover permanent damages to their farm allegedly caused by its negligent disposal of salt water into open pits on the Dietz and adjoining lands which seeped and percolated through underground porous formation into the Dietz fresh water well which it polluted and destroyed. This salt water was produced by Geochemical in the development of the…
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