Tidewater Oil Company v. George E. Jackson and Karl B. Jackson, Doing Business in Partnership as Jackson Brothers

MURRAH, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in a diversity suit for damages, brought by a Kansas oil and gas leaseholder against an adjoining leaseholder, for the wrongful water flooding of his lease. Water flooding is a legally and scientifically accepted method of producing oil and gas by the introduction of foreign water into an oil bearing for,matÍOn’ ^ally after primary í°n ho/?s are™ ,lonfr Profitable, G“erallylthe method involves the inter^ctmnofwater under pressure, into strategical^ located input wells, for the ™se gating a water drive, whlch pU+?es ««dual…