Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Pittman

Appellees brought suit for damages allegedly caused to a well upon their lands by experimental charges of dynamite fired in testing by seismograph the structure of the underlying strata for purposes of exploration.

Three charges were fired by appellant. Two were made with two pounds of dynamite at a depth of sixty-five feet and one of two and one-half pounds at a depth of forty feet. The well in question is about nine hundred feet from the shot points. It was a bored well 204 feet in depth and electrically operated. Appellant appeals from a judgment upon a verdict for $1000.

Only one assignment…