Rudco Oil & Gas Co. v. Lemasters

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

This suit was brought by W. S. Lemas-ters against Rudco Oil and Gas Company to recover damages to a 48-acre tract of land near Desdemona, Texas, alleged to have resulted from negligence of the defendant in that the defendant “failed to impound, channel, take care of and drain into well built and regulated slush pits and traps of. sufficient capacity so as would have and could have arrested the overflow” of certain “waste oil and waste material” from defendant’s gasoline-plant on nearby premises. A particular further allegation was to the effect that defendant had, without…