Peters Petroleum Corp. v. Alred

This is an appeal from the judgment in favor of defendant in error, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, against plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, in an action to recover damages alleged to have been caused by negligence of defendant in allowing salt water and oil to escape from its wells, whereby plaintiff’s cattle .were killed or damaged by drinking such salt water and oil.

Plaintiff in his petition alleges that in 1928, he was in the peaceable, quiet, and undisturbed possession of certain lands in Osage county, including the northeast quarter of section 27, and the…