Sinclair Oil & Gas Co. v. Allen

DIFFENDAFFER, C.

This action is to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the pollution of a stream running through plaintiff’s farm, by casting therein salt water, crude oil, and base sediment from oil wells, etc.

Plaintiff, among other allegations, stated in her petition that the 160 acres of land involved were purchased and were chiefly valuable for stock breeding and stock raising purposes, and had been used for such purposes since about 1899, and that by reason of the contour, etc., of said land, and the location of tbe stream, etc., together with the timber growing along the hanks…