City of Wetumka v. Cromwell-Franklin Oil Co.

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

• The plaintiff, the city of Wetumka, filed its action in the district court of Hughes county against Cromwell-Franklin Oil Company and about 50 other oil and gas companies operating in the Oklahoma City and Seminole fields, among them being Mid-Con-' tinent Petroleum Corporation, alleging that plaintiff had been damaged by reason of defendants polluting its city water supply, and praying for judgment in the sum of $'200,000 actual damages and $25,000 punitive damages. Judgment was rendered against a great number of the…