Texas Company v. Yell

MASON, Y. C. J.

The defendants in error, John Yell and, C. W. Downey, recovered a judgment against the Carter Oil Company, the Texas Company, Roxana Petroleum Company. Wolverine Oil Company, Shelly Oil Company, and the Gypsy Oil Company, in the sum of $200 for damages sustained to growing crops owned by the plaintiffs, by reason of oil, base sediment, and salt water flowing across their lands from the oil properties of said companies, from which judgment all the companies,, except the Gypsy Oil Company, appeal.

For reversal, it is first urged that the trial court erred, when the ease was called…