Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Pritchett

GALLAGHER, O. J.

This appeal is prosecuted by Humble Oil & Refining Company and' four other oil companies from a judgment in favor of O. E. Pritchett ágainst them jointly for the sum of $235, as compensation for damages found to have been sustained by. him on account of injuries to his crops of cotton, corn, and grass caused by an overflow of the waters of Cedar creek. Appellee alleged that appellants operated oil wells in the Powell oil field, from which field surface waters drained into said creek; that they permitted oil to escape from their said wells and mingle with such waters and flow…