Stekoll v. Wilson

HALLEY, V.C.J.

The parties here have reversed their positions of plaintiff and defendants in the trial court, and will be referred to according to the positions they occupied there.

Plaintiff was the owner of a quarter section of land in Okfuskee county on which he pastured 21 head of cattle. Defendant Albert Stekoll was the owner of an oil and gas lease on this quarter section and was producing oil from a well on this land. The plaintiff claimed damage to the cattle that were grazing on this land, alleging that they were injured by virtue of drinking salt water that came from defendant’s oil…