Gulf Pipe Line Co. v. Brymer

WILLSON, Chief Justice.

About November 15, 1907, appellee owned a tract of land situated on Mitchell Creek, in Hopkins County, and appellant owned and operated in carrying "crude or unrefined oil from Watkins, Oklahoma, to Sour Lake, Texas, a pipe line crossing said creek at a point about three miles above appellee’s land. On the day mentioned, and again on November 17, 1907, oil escaped from the pipe line and flowed into the creek and low places near same. On the day last mentioned, as the result of rains falling in its locality, the creek overflowed, washing oil which had escaped from the…