Carter Oil Company v. Kerley

Opinion by

PINKHAM, C.

This action was commenced by the filing of .plaintiff’s original petition on May 18, 1921, which petition was later amended, alleging that the plaintiff — defendant in error herein — is the owner of certain lands in sections 28. 29, 32, and 33, township 4 south, range 3 west, in Carter county, therein specifically described, and that the defendants and each of them are engaged in producing oil and operating oil wells in sections 9, HO, 15, and 16, of said township, range, and county; that in their operations the said defendants have' negligently allowed oil and salt water…