Darby Petroleum Corp. v. Mason

This is an appeal from the district court of Noble county in an action where John Mason, defendant in error, was plaintiff, and the plaintiffs in error were defendants. Plaintiff in his petition alleged that the defendants had permitted to escape, from their oil operations on leases owned by defendants, large amounts of salt water and refuse oil which had polluted the wells and ponds used by the plaintiff for drinking water and also for stock, which salt water and base sediment and petroleum oil were allowed to run over the land of the plaintiff, thereby damaging it, and that by reason…