Pan American Petroleum Co. v. Byars

KNIGHT, Justice.

Plaintiff, Mrs. J. B. Byars, brought this action against the Pan American Petroleum Company to recover damages for an injury to certain land owned by her in Blount county, Ala. The plaintiff stated her cause of action in four counts, the first, second, and fourth being in case, while the third amended count was in trespass. The real basis of plaintiff’s claim was that the defendant permitted gasoline, to leak or escape from tanks or pumping equipment, which defendant had installed in or at a filling station, leased by it, into a well, or wells upon certain lands of plaintiff…