McCoy v. Arkansas Natural Gas Co.

FOURNET, Justice.

This is a suit by landowners against a lessee of certain other neighboring lands, within a radius of one mile from their property, to recover damages said to have been sustained as a result of the defendant’s negligent and deliberate acts in permitting valuable gas .deposits under plaintiffs’ lands to escape through a well and crater located on the lands which defendant leased and cratered by its negligent and willful acts.

The parties plaintiffs and defendant in this case are the same, with the exception of J. Hemp Brown and Martin E. Flemlcr (whose claims it is conceded by…